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:
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- Soliloquy Of The Solipsist by Sylvia Plath
- T.A.H. poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
- Sir Galahad poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я счастлив, тайный яд течёт в моей крови
- By Philemon by William Cowper
- Омар Хайям – Что я дружу с вином, не отрицаю, нет
- The Quality of Mercy by William Shakespeare
- Николай Языков – Виленскому (Не робко пей, товарищ мой)
- A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юнна Мориц – Собственное небо
- Greengrocer by Robert McNamara
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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.