Oh, youthful bearer of my palanquin,
Thy glossy hair lies loosened on thy neck,
The “tears of labour” gem thy velvet skin,
Whose even texture knows no other fleck.
Thy slender shoulder strains beneath my weight;
Too fair thou art for work, sweet slave of mine.
Would that this idle breast, reversing fate,
A willing serf to love, supported thine!
I smell the savage scent of sun-warmed fur
Close in the Jungle, musky, hot and sweet.–
The air comes from thy shoulder, even as myrrh,
Would we were as the panthers, free to meet.
The Temple road is steep; I grieve to see
Thy slender ankles bruised among the clods.
Oh, my Beloved, if I might worship thee!
Beauty is greater far than all the Gods.
A few random poems:
- Joy and Pleasure by William Henry Davies
- Moonlight by Vita Sackville-West
- The Hyaenas by Rudyard Kipling
- Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore
- Алишер Навои – О сердце, столько на земле
- A Strange Gentlewoman Passing By His Window by William Strode
- Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: On Wm. Graham, Esq., Of Mossknowe:
- Ольга Седакова – Элегия смоковницы
- Какие яблоки в саду
- Владимир Британишский – Единственный шаман, которого я видел
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
- Robert Burns: Bonie Peg-a-Ramsay:
- Юлия Друнина – Дочери
- one_almost_might.html
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
- Ольга Седакова – Земля
- Ольга Седакова – Я жизнь в порыве жить
- Ольга Седакова – Хильдегарда
- Ольга Седакова – Вьюга
- Ольга Седакова – Всё, и сразу
- Ольга Седакова – Все труды
- Ольга Седакова – Вода-крестьянка
- Ольга Седакова – Ветер прощанья
- Ольга Седакова – Вениамин
- Ольга Седакова – Вечерняя песня
- Ольга Седакова – В винном отделе
- Ольга Седакова – В незапамятных зимах
- Ольга Седакова – В это зыбкое скопленье
- Ольга Седакова – Успение
- Ольга Седакова – Три зеркала
- Ольга Седакова – Три богини
- Ольга Седакова – Только время доходит сюда
- Ольга Седакова – То в теплом золоте, в широких переплетах
- Ольга Седакова – Старый поэт (Постскриптум)
- Ольга Седакова – Стансы третьи (Вино и плавание)
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.