Go, let the fatted calf be kill’d;
My prodigal’s come home at last,
With noble resolutions fill’d,
And fill’d with sorrow for the past:
No more will burn with love or wine;
But quite has left his women and his swine.
Welcome, ah! welcome, my poor heart!
Welcome! I little thought, I’ll swear
(‘T is now so long since we did part),
Ever again to see thee here:
Dear wanderer! Since from me you fled,
How often have I heard that thou wert dead!
Hast thou not found each woman’s breast
(The lands where thou hast travelled)
Either by savages possest,
Or wild and uninhabited?
What joy couldst take, or what repose,
In countries so unciviliz’d as those?
Lust, the scorching dog-star, here
Rages with immoderate heat;
Whilst pride, the rugged Northern bear,
In others makes the cold too great:
And, where these are temperate known,
The soil’s all barren sand or rocky stone.
When once or twice you chanc’d to view
A rich, well-govern’d heart,
Like China, it admitted you
But to the frontier-part.
From Paradise shut for evermore,
What good is ‘t that an angel kept the door?
Well fare the pride, and the disdain,
And vanities, with beauty join’d;
I ne’er had seen this heart again,
If any fair-one had been kind:
My dove, but once let loose, I doubt
Would ne’er return, had not the flood been out.
A few random poems:
- Trademark by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
- Юлия Друнина – Старая лента, обугленный лес
- Robert Burns: Address Of Beelzebub: To the Right Honourable the Earl of Breadalbane, President of the Right Honourable and Honourable the Highland Society, which met on the 23rd of May last at the Shakespeare, Covent Garden, to concert ways and means to frustrate the designs of five hundred Highlanders, who, as the Society were informed by Mr. M’Kenzie of Applecross, were so audacious as to attempt an escape from their lawful lords and masters whose property they were, by emigrating from the lands of Mr. Macdonald of Glengary to the wilds of Canada, in search of that fantastic thing-Liberty.
- Song For The Severed Head In `The King Of The Great Clock Tower’ by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о конькобежце на короткие дистанции, которого заставили бежать на длинную
- A Wild Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- The Explanation by Rudyard Kipling
- A Prophecy. February 1807 by William Wordsworth
- Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
- Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland by William Butler Yeats
- A Moment Of Happiness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Юлия Друнина – В семнадцать
- Николай Заболоцкий – Поход
- To a Young Lady, with the Illiad of Homer Translated by William Somervile
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 Four Winds poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Five Adorations poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Buddhist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Atheist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Thanatos Basileos poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Power poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Pan to Artemis poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Optimist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- On; On; Poet poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Lyric of Love to Leah poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Long Odds poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Logos poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Linoz Isidoz poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- La Gitana poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Independence poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Hymn to Pan poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Hymn to Lucifer poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Happy Dust poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Elegy poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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
Abraham Cowley (1618 – 1667), the Royalist Poet.Poet and essayist Abraham Cowley was born in London, England, in 1618. He displayed early talent as a poet, publishing his first collection of poetry, Poetical Blossoms (1633), at the age of 15. Cowley studied at Cambridge University but was stripped of his Cambridge fellowship during the English Civil War and expelled for refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644. In turn, he accompanied Queen Henrietta Maria to France, where he spent 12 years in exile, serving as her secretary. During this time, Cowley completed The Mistress (1647). Arguably his most famous work, the collection exemplifies Cowley’s metaphysical style of love poetry. After the Restoration, Cowley returned to England, where he was reinstated as a Cambridge fellow and earned his MD before finally retiring to the English countryside. He is buried at Westminster Abbey alongside Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Cowley is a wonderful poet and an outstanding representative of the English baroque.