O God

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.

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Poems in English 

• Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Aerialist by Sylvia Plath by Sylvia Plath
• Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
• Smoke by Théophile Gautier by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
• Last Wish by Théophile Gautier by Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier
• Work and Play by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Wind by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Tractor by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Thrushes by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Thistles by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Owl by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Minotaur by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• September by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
• Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes

More external links (open in a new tab):

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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.

 

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