by Ahmad Shawqi
O’ God !
I wander all day and pine through time,
And seek some comfort in my rhyme.
The noblest of rhymes overflow with love,
The sweetest line – the musical and pure –
Are written down for the heart as a cure.
Men turn as they pay to the holy place;
To Laila’s home I turn my face.
Twice people say their prayers at dawn;
When I think of her’
I know not the times I repeat my own,
Laila hid behind a crowd;
Her lip betrayed a smile,
Like the break of morn,
Or the sun as it shone.
Her sweet breath filled the air,
Made perfumed roses seem less fair.
A shiver ran through my form
From head to toe
As though my eye had met her own.
Let’s love:
All men are mortal but love never dies:
Laila and I loved with young eyes:
Our love story which is now alive,
To our successors will continue to survive.
Generations of men will die and go past,
But our true love will forever last.
A few random poems:
- The First Part: Sonnet 10 – Fair Moon, who with thy cold and silver shine by William Drummond
- All is Truth. by Walt Whitman
- An Exiles Farewell
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Not A Star
- Song by Thomas Carew
- Николай Заболоцкий – Новый быт
- Шекспир – Лелеет лето лучший свой цветок – Сонет 94
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Sappho Redivivus: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- Some Singers And Their Traits poem – Ygor Noblott poems | Poetry Monster
- Of Old Sat Freedom poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Черное озеро
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
- do you believe in always by Steve Troyanovich
- cascades of emptiness by Steve Troyanovich
- … and the moon was sleeping by Steve Troyanovich
- ambiguities of absence by Steve Troyanovich
- Who Would Of Knew…..About Your Concept!!! (July 10th) by Stevens Cadet
- The Future Promise Letter by Stevens Cadet
- Sometimes….Life’s A Beach by Stevens Cadet
- Passion Of My Heart by Stevens Cadet
- Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet
- A Night With Passion! by Stevens Cadet
- Lyfe by Stevens Cadet
- Cupid’s Reign Of Terror (March 2012) by Stevens Cadet
- The Captain by Stevens Cadet
- Better Days by Stevens Cadet
- A Poem For Ashleigh (July) by Stevens Cadet
- A Pen Wrote The Funeral by Stevens Cadet
- A Morning Letter by Stevens Cadet
- The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
- The Jungle Husband by Stevie Smith
- Tenuous And Precarious by Stevie Smith
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
