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:
- Nothing Stays Put poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Корнилов – Небо
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы бдительны, мы тайн не разболтаем
- Альфред де Мюссе – Слова отчаянья прекрасней всех других
- Владимир Высоцкий – То бишь о чём
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- Sonnet CL by William Shakespeare
- Николай Глазков – Пусть будет эта повесть
- London, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- The Vision poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Words You Said poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Jacke-On-Both-Sides by William Strode
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.