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:
- Вера Павлова – Вопрос ребра
- Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha
- Зинаида Александрова – Невидимка
- Anti-Thelyphthora. A Tale In Verse by William Cowper
- A Song of Kabir by Rudyard Kipling
- Song—A Man’s a Man for a’ that by Robert Burns
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- I am a sculptor, a molder of form by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Creativity Leads to Family Enrichment
- Sonnet: When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Разлука
- Free Fantasia On Japanese Themes poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- Ольга Седакова – Маленькое посвящение Владимиру Ивановичу Хвостину
- Child In Red by Rainer Maria Rilke
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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.