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:
- Dream With Clam-Diggers by Sylvia Plath
- Victims poem – Yaseen Anwer poems | Poetry Monster
- Barnfloor and Winepress poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Fireflies in the Garden by Robert Frost
- Вера Павлова – Весть обызвестковалась
- I am the earthworm, Lord of the Underworld by Raj Arumugam
- Content Written Off Ithica poem – Alfred Austin
- Альфред Теннисон – Леди Клара Вер-де-Вер
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- Am I the Assassin or the Undertaker by T. Wignesan
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- The Indian To His Love by William Butler Yeats
- Lullaby by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary:
- Tarrant Moss by Rudyard Kipling
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.