The red-rose flush fades slowly in the west.
The golden water, basking in the light,
Pales to clear amber and to silver white.
The velvet shadow of a flame-crowned crest
Lies dark and darker on its shining breast,
Till lonely mere and isle and mountain-height
Grow dim as dreams in tender mist of night,
And all is tranquil as a babe at rest.
So still! So calm! Will our life’s eve come thus?
No sound of strife, of labour or of pain,
No ring of woodman’s axe, no dip of oar.
Will work be done, and night’s rest earned, for us?
And shall we wake to see sunrise again?
Or shall we sleep, to see and know no more?

A few random poems:
- AUTUMN GRAPES by Önder Kurt
- Epigramma in Duos montes Amosclivum Et Bilboreum poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: Revised Version
- Cauls of Haw by Roland Bastien
- Keen, Fitful Gusts are Whisp’ring Here and There poem – John Keats poems
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Отходная
- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Низами Гянджеви – Там, где лик ты светлый явишь
- Омар Хайям – Это время любви, словно тёплая осень
- What We Need Is Here by Wendell Berry
- Ольга Берггольц – Воспоминание (И вот в лицо пахнуло земляникой)
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот какое обещание молодой солдат дает… (Главполитпросвет №376)
- Friends by Vishü Rita Krocha
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
Ada Cambridge (1844 – 1926), also known as Ada Cross, was an English-born Australian author and poetess. She wrote more than 25 works of fiction, three volumes of poetry and two autobiographical works.