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:
- Омар Хайям – Если бог не услышит меня в вышине
- Николай Заболоцкий – Читайте, деревья, стихи Гезиода
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
- Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Игорь Северянин – Синее
- Аля Кудряшева – Осень в городе
- The Great Lament Of My Obscurity Three by Tristan Tzara
- There is but there is not poem – Amy Haritha Suseel poems | Poems and Poetry
- Кастрюль и сковородок музыкант
- Олег Григорьев – На заборе валенки
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Веселая покойницкая
- Ольга Седакова – Три зеркала
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.