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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Sonnet LI by William Shakespeare
- Olney Hymn 33: Seeking The Beloved by William Cowper
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Crazy Jane And Jack The Journeyman by William Butler Yeats
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
- The Glutton by Sylvia Plath
- A Tale Of True Love poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Иван да Марья
- Portrait of a Boy by Stephen Vincent Benet
- A Tale of Starvation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Desire # 4 by Patricia Fargnoli
- A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Константин Батюшков – На книгу под названием «Смесь»
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
- Гавриил Державин – Философы, пьяный и трезвый
- Гавриил Державин – Амур и Психея
- Гавриил Державин – Жуковскому и Родзянке, приславшим с большими похвалами автору перевод его оды «Бог» на французском языке
- Гавриил Державин – Желание в горняя
- Гавриил Державин – Жан Расин. Рассказ Терамена
- Гавриил Державин – Задумчивость
- Гавриил Державин – Храповицкому (Храповицкий! дружбы знаки)
- Гавриил Державин – Похвала за правосудие
- Гавриил Державин – Похвала комару
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- Гавриил Державин – Поминки
- Гавриил Державин – Покаяние
- Гавриил Державин – Подражание псалму (Терпел я, уповал на Бога)
- Гавриил Державин – Песенка
- Гавриил Державин – Пчелка
- Гавриил Державин – Охотник
- Гавриил Державин – Осень
- Гавриил Державин – Оковы
- Гавриил Державин – О удовольствии
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
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.