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:
- The Bee Meeting by Sylvia Plath
- Cantico del Sole poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Золото
- Spenser’s Ireland by Marianne Moore
- How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton poems
- Bantams In Pine-Woods by Wallace Stevens
- Now Close the Windows by Robert Frost
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Cotton and Corn by Thomas Moore
- Of Three Or Four In The Room by Yehuda Amichai
- Василий Жуковский – Море
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
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
- Валерий Брюсов – После ночи бессонной
- Валерий Брюсов – Я жизнью пьян. Напиток жгучий
- Василий Каменский – Из Симеиза в Алупку
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- Василий Казин – Ожидание
- Василий Казин – Ну, тебя ль, далекая
- Василий Казин – Не потому ль к любви вселенской
- Василий Казин – На могиле матери
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
- Василий Казин – Кирилл и Мефодий
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
- Василий Казин – Гармонист
- Василий Казин – Эпоха
- Василий Кубанёв – 12 июля
- Василий Курочкин – Юмористическим чутьем
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Василий Курочкин – Счастливец
- Василий Курочкин – Раздумье
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Василий Курочкин – Ни в мать, ни в отца
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.