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:
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: I’ll Meet Thee On The Lea Rig:
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимн судье
- Certain Maxims Of Hafiz by Rudyard Kipling
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- Paradise Lost: Book 12 poem – John Milton poems
- Rimmon by Rudyard Kipling
- Out A-Nuttèn by William Barnes
- Николай Заболоцкий – Небесная Севилья
- Шекспир – Мои глаза в тебя не влюблены – Сонет 141
- Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
- The Coin by Sara Teasdale
- To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses poem – John Keats poems
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.