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:
- The Perch by Seamus Heaney
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На улице
- Владимир Маяковский – Чемпионат всемирной классовой борьбы
- As He Walks Away by Mahmoud Darwish
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley
- On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
- Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны
- Robert Burns: The Banks Of Nith:
- The New Church Organ by Will McKendree Carleton
- Between the Showers poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times by William Cowper
- Inexpensive Progress poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Outsong in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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.