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:
- When I read the Book. by Walt Whitman
- Olney Hymn 47: The Hidden Life by William Cowper
- Геннадий Айги – ЧИТАЯ НОРВИДА
- Rosslyn To The Prime Minister by Graham Rowlands
- To One Shortly to Die. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Григорьев – Тонет муха в сладости
- Now Hollow Fires Burn Out to Black poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Bucolics by Sylvia Plath
- Solitude poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- New Love, New Life poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Like This by Rumi
- Into The Twilight by William Butler Yeats
- WHAT ASYLUM! by Satish Verma
- To Emily Dickinson by Yvor Winters
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.