My paramour was loneliness
And lying by the sea,
Soft songs of sorrow and distress
He did beget in me.
Later another lover came
More meet for my desire,
“Radiant Beauty” was his name;
His sons had wings of fire!
A few random poems:
- Юлия Жадовская – Да, я вижу
- On The Tomb Of A Priestess Of Artemis by Sappho
- Жан де Лафонтен – Городская и полевая Крысы
- Melville And Coghill – The Place Of The Little Hand poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- An Untold Tale by Shahida Latif
- Lyric of Love to Leah poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- Devils poem – Alexander Pushkin
- As Slow Our Ship by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Тоска немая гложет иногда
- Poetry of Our Time
- Владимир Высоцкий – Дорога, дорога, счёта нет шагам
- Нина Пикулева – Яна-Несмеяна
- Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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.