As those who eat a Luscious Fruit, sunbaked,
Full of sweet juice, with zest, until they find
It finished, and their appetite unslaked,
And so return and eat the pared-off rind;–
We, who in Youth, set white and careless teeth
In the Ripe Fruits of Pleasure while they last,
Later, creep back to gnaw the cast-off sheath,
And find there is no Rival like the Past.

A few random poems:
- Низами Гянджеви – Газелеокая
- Creative Branding Solutions – So Why Do I Need a Logo?
- Of Myself – the Essay and Poems on Myself by Abraham Cowley
- The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay
- A Serenade At The Villa by Robert Browning
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- Battle Salamis
- For Fixation Who Loves Me Back poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вероника Тушнова – Знаешь ли ты, что такое горе
- A Quick Ode to Spam, a Poem about Spam
- Dear Harp of my Country by Thomas Moore
- Enough by Sara Teasdale
- Вера Полозкова – Горький запах полыни
- Battle Of Corruna by William Lisle Bowles
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.