Prayer

You are all that is lovely and light,

Aziza whom I adore,

And, waking, after the night,

I am weary with dreams of you.

Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore

As I rise to another morning apart from you.

I dream of your luminous eyes,

Aziza whom I adore!

Of the ruffled silk of your hair,

I dream, and the dreams are lies.

But I love them, knowing no more

Will ever be mine of you

Aziza, my life’s despair.

I would burn for a thousand days,

Aziza whom I adore,

Be tortured, slain, in unheard of ways

If you pitied the pain I bore.

You pity! Your bright eyes, fastened on other things,

Are keener to sting my soul, than scorpion stings!

You are all that is lovely to me,

All that is light,

One white rose in a Desert of weariness.

I only live in the night,

The night, with its fair false dreams of you,

You and your loveliness.

Give me your love for a day,

A night, an hour:

If the wages of sin are Death

I am willing to pay.

What is my life but a breath

Of passion burning away?

Away for an unplucked flower.

O Aziza whom I adore,

Aziza my one delight,

Only one night, I will die before day,

And trouble your life no more.

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

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 

• Bertie the Goldfish by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• Bagua by Rose Mry Boehm by Poetry In English
• A turn of events by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• A Schoolyard Shame by Ryan Isaacson by Poetry In English
• 600 Kilos of Muscle and Bone by Rose Mary Boehm by Poetry In English
• Words Of Advice by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• Wherever You Go, There You Are by Ryssel Guzman by Poetry In English
• We Miss You So Much by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• Trial by Ruth Padel by Poetry In English
• To A Wife, On Mother’s Day by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel by Poetry In English
• Threads of Gold by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• Thoughts by Ronald G. Auguste by Poetry In English
• The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• The tragic tale of Bobby Magee by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• The Scarecrow by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• The missing pen by Ross D Tyler by Poetry In English
• The Appointment by Ruth Padel by Poetry In English

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works