A wave-worn boulder, with green sea-moss wrapping
A silken mantle o’er its jagged sides;
And silvery, seething waters softly lapping
Through gulfs and channels hollow’d by the tides:
A lime-cliff overhead, o’erhanging grimly,
A dash of sunlight on its breast of snow;
The white line of the breakers, stretching dimly
Along the narrow sea-beach down below:
The grey waste of the waters, with one slender,
Glimmering, golden ripple far away;
The haze of summer twilight, sweet and tender,
Veiling the fair face of the dying day:
The measured plash of surf upon the shingle,
The ceaseless gurgle through the rocks and stones;
No sound of struggling human life, to mingle
With those mysterious and eternal tones!
No sound-no sound,-a hungry sea-mew only
Breaking the stillness with her little cry;
And the low whisper, when ’tis all so lonely,
Of soft south breezes as they wander by:-
I see it all; sweet dreams of it are thronging
In full floods back upon my weary brain;
To-night, in my dark chamber, the old longing
Almost fulfils its very self again.
The dying sunbeams, on the far waves glinting,
Come like warm kisses to my lips and brow,
Soothing my spirit-all its grey thoughts tinting
With tender shades of golden colour now.
Alone and still, I sit, and think, and listen,
Looking out westward o’er the darkening sea;
My seat the boulder, where the spray-drops glisten;
The tall, white cliffs my regal canopy.
And, as I sit, the fretting cares and sorrows,
Weighing so heavy when the work is done,
The gloomy yesterdays and dim to-morrows,
They slip away and vanish one by one,-
Slip backward to the world that lies behind me,
Every by sinful footsteps overtrod;
And in this unstain’d world leave nought to bind me,
This sweet world, fillèd with the peace of God!
A few random poems:
- Владимир Корнилов – Прежнее слово
- He Hears The Cry Of The Sedge by William Butler Yeats
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- Ode to My Guitar by William Wright Harris
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лев, сраженный Человеком
- For The Record
- A Terre by Wilfred Owen
- Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) poem – A. Van Jordan poems
- Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
- An Epithalamium by Sappho
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
- Expectations by Pamela Griffiths
- Василий Жуковский – Торжество победителей
- An Excursion Steamer Sunk in the Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi
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
- A Scot To Jeanne D’Arc poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Young Love poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Upon The Hill And Grove At Bill-borow poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Upon An Eunuch; A Poet. Fragment poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Translated poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Tom May’s Death poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lady Mary Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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- To His Noble Friend, Mr. Richard Lovelace, Upon His Poems poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To Christina, Queen of Sweden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Thoughts in a Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Unfortunate Lover poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Mower’s Song poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Nymph Complaining For The Death Of Her Faun poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Mower To The Glo-Worms poem – Andrew Marvell 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.