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:
- The Song Maker by Sara Teasdale
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Ольга Берггольц – Твоя молодость
- The Huntsmen by Walter de la Mare
- Юнна Мориц – Дышать любовью, пить её, как воздух
- Владимир Степанов – Хлопотунья
- The Holy Mountain of Hope by Thomas Ziemer
- To Gnedich poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Flute Notes From A Reedy Pond by Sylvia Plath
- Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps] by William Wordsworth
- On the Danger of Procrastination by Abraham Cowley
- He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace by William Butler Yeats
- Inversnaid poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Sir Hugh; Or The Jew’s Daughter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton :
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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.