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:
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani
- The High Road In Winter poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Masonic Song—Ye Sons of Old Killie by Robert Burns
- Иван Бунин – Алёнушка
- Владимир Британишский – Добравшись до водораздела
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
- For Fixation Who Loves Me Back poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Has Your Soul Sipped? by Wilfred Owen
- The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Обновки
- A Soldier’s Reprieve by William Topaz McGonagall
- Venus, on a fur by Witty Fay
- Владимир Маяковский – За истекший декабрь добыча по Подмосковному… (РОСТА №896)
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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.