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:
- Caught in a Net by Vachel Lindsay
 - Владислав Крапивин – На Диком Западе
 - Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
 - God’s Wheel by Shel Silverstein
 - Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
 - Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
 - Follow Me ‘ome by Rudyard Kipling
 - The Sympathies of the Long Married by Robert Bly
 - Counting My Past
 - Cavern in Paradise by Rita Odessa Villaruel
 - Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! poem – John Keats poems
 - Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
 - Robert Burns: O Aye My Wife She Dang Me:
 - Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
 - Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
 
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
- To Virgil poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - To The Queen poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Tithonus poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Revenge; A Ballad of the Fleet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Progress of Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 6) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 4) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 3) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 2) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 1) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 
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.