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:
- For what’s worth breathing by Rixa White
- Гавриил Державин – Охотник
- An Interchanging Poetry Expression Of Love by Mac McGovern
- Sonnet 81: Or I shall live your epitaph to make by William Shakespeare
- Colonus’ Praise by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- “Call Not The Royal Swede Unfortunate” by William Wordsworth
- Edward Lear by W H Auden
- Владимир Вишневский – Стада уж боле не пасутся мирно
- The Heart’s House by Sara Teasdale
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- The Gardener LXXXIV: Over the Green by Rabindranath Tagore
- Hero by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Набоков – О, любовь, ты светла и крылата
- Владимир Высоцкий – Побег на рывок
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.