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 Death Of Grant poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Frye
- Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Степан Щипачев – По дороге в совхоз
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Introduction to the Songs of Innocence by William Blake
- Scribbles by Suchi Gaur
- Long Distance I by Tony Harrison
- Владимир Британишский – 1848 год в Зимнем дворце
- Николай Заболоцкий – Приглашение на пир
- Ford o’ Kabul River by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Корнилов – Париж
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- A Prayer poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Last Breath of a Ship by Tri Tran
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
- The Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.