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 Языков – А. А. Воейковой (На петербургскую дорогу)
- Verses on Sir Joshua Reynold’s Painted Window at New College, Oxford by Thomas Warton
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Said Occasion [On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- Solitude: An Ode poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Muhammad by Mahmoud Darwish
- Ancient Sins by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 45: The other two, slight air and purging fire by William Shakespeare
- “Flight to the Moon” by Nina Gabriel
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о двух красивых автомобилях
- Владимир Костров – Смуту и безверье не приемль
- Quietness, Something to Consider… Or Not (2 Poems)
- Михаил Лермонтов – Время сердцу быть в покое
- Омар Хайям – Не бойтесь дарить согревающих слов
- Stray Colors by Satish Verma
- My Country Place by Thomas J Camp
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.