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:
- Robert Burns Country: O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day:
- To His Watch poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Странная сказка
- Зинаида Александрова – Ветер на речке
- The face wanted by Vinko Kalinić
- John Milton As Author of Pornographic Verse: An Extempore Upon a Faggot
- Sonet 35 by William Alexander
- Ольга Берггольц – Письмо из Ленинграда
- Катя Пиксаева – Давай поговорим о доброте
- She Was A Phantom Of Delight by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Орлов – Где петушок носит гребешок
- There is a Community of Spirit by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ночи
- The Gardener XLVIII: Free Me by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – В “Онегине”, глава седьмая
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.