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:
- Song—A Waukrife Minnie by Robert Burns
 - The Lover’s Song poem – Alfred Austin
 - Владимир Маяковский – Раньше иностранцы шли в Россию как разбойники и воры… (Роста №105)
 - By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
 - Зинаида Александрова – Карманный фонарик
 - Unanswered
 - The Cat in the Kitchen by Robert Bly
 - from The Cave of Making by W H Auden
 - Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
 - So tired by Tanisha Avarsekar
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Оловянные солдатики
 - Ок Мельникова – Гасите звёзды
 - Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 - Гавриил Державин – К правде
 - Ольга Берггольц – Возвращение
 
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
- Sonnet. On A Picture Of Leander poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet: Oh! How I Love, On A Fair Summer’s Eve poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet IV. How Many Bards Gild The Lapses Of Time! poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet III. Written On The Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet II. To ****** poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. If By Dull Rhymes Our English Must Be Chain’d poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet I. To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet: Before He Went poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet: After Dark Vapors Have Oppress’d Our Plains poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode Of Paulo And Francesca poem – John Keats poems
 - Song. Written On A Blank Page In Beaumont And Fletcher’s Works poem – John Keats poems
 - Song Of Four Faries poem – John Keats poems
 - Song. I Had A Dove poem – John Keats poems
 - Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! poem – John Keats poems
 - Sharing Eve’s Apple poem – John Keats poems
 - Otho The Great – Act V poem – John Keats poems
 - Otho The Great – Act IV poem – John Keats poems
 - Otho The Great – Act III poem – John Keats poems
 
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.