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:
- A Song by William Butler Yeats
- In An Underground Dressing Station by Siegfried Sassoon
- Astrophel and Stella: I by Sir Philip Sidney
- An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar by Robert Browning
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше были писатели белоручки… (Роста №52)
- Владимир Степанов – Утёнок (Буква У)
- Sonnet 97: How like a winter hath my absence been by William Shakespeare
- The Real Work by Wendell Berry
- O Sing, Fair Lady, When With Me poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Британишский – В чащобах памяти кого не встретишь вдруг
- Robert Burns: On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain: A Fragment
- Academic Graffiti by W H Auden
- Гавриил Державин – О удовольствии
- MANY NAMESAKES by Satish Verma
- Be Lost In The Call by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.