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:
- Николай Карамзин – Посвящение к «Аглае»
- Sonnet III: With how sad steps by Sir Philip Sidney
- The Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Snowy Spring Is Raging Mad poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Civil War Songs
- Владимир Высоцкий – Моя клятва (Первый стих)
- Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein
- This is Love by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Delilah by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Тихонов – Когда уйду
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оплавляются свечи на старинный паркет
- Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring:
- A Hundred Years Hence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Hope
- My Journey by Vikki Bonyata
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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.