This passion is but an ember
Of a Sun, of a Fire, long set;
I could not live and remember,
And so I love and forget.
You say, and the tone is fretful,
That my mourning days were few,
You call me over forgetful–
My God, if you only knew!
A few random poems:
- A Desolate Shore by William Ernest Henley
- Владимир Костров – Сверстницам
- Reaping poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Nature Of Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Rythm Upon Our Trusts by Michael McGovern
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- Sonnet CLII by William Shakespeare
- In Praise Of Henna by Sarojini Naidu
- Sonet 41 by William Alexander
- That Shadow, my Likeness. by Walt Whitman
- The Lily And The Rose by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К точкам
- Lover’s Gifts XLVIII: I Travelled the Old Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Анатолий Жигулин – Не надо бояться памяти
- Kashmiri Song By Juma
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
Batty Writing – the bat’s idle chatter, thoughts, ideas and observations, all original, all fresh
Poems in English
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Violet Nicolson ( 1865 – 1904); otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author. She committed suicide and is buried in Madras, now Chennai, India.