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:
- To a foil’d European Revolutionaire. by Walt Whitman
- UNDECIPHERABLE by Satish Verma
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня парня у обелиска космонавтам
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
- The Room by Mark Strand
- Be Lost In The Call by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Atheist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не бывает кораблей без названия
- Are You the New person, drawn toward Me? by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Нормализованная гайка (РОСТА № 171)
- When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon
- Island-Hearth by M. Ivana Trevisani Bach
- Start Growing by Rixa White
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- Let Me Tide Over by Vattacharja Chandan
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.