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:
- Валерий Брюсов – Эту ночь я дышал тишиной
- Vacant Lot With Pokeweed poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Rhyme of the Three Captains by Rudyard Kipling
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 26. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- The Quarry by William Vaughn Moody
- The Frivolity of Dreaming by Mahi Chauhan
- A Shakespeare Memorial poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Вишневский – В Мисхоре
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
- Blistering Attack by Satish Verma
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
- Desire for You by Seema Gupta
- Jones’s Porvate Argyment by Sidney Lanier
- A Clear Day And No Memories by Wallace Stevens
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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.