His eyes did rest upon Julia’s breast
as she spoke or questioned or sighed,
until she shaved her head one day
to spite his wandering eye;
now when she speaks or quests or sighs
his eyes rest on her barren brow,
on the memory of her hairline
and the fate that awaits him now.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Николай Языков – Послание к Ф. И. Иноземцеву (Да сохранит тебя великий русский бог)
- Омар Хайям – Друзей поменьше
- Robert Burns: O For Ane An’ Twenty, Tam :
- Pan’s Lament by Rose Mary Boehm
- Half The People In The World by Yehuda Amichai
- The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Woman Of His Dreams by Talha Jafri
- Алексей Толстой – Три побоища
- Владимир Высоцкий – Парня спасём, парня в детдом
- Turtledove of the Green Land – Dedicated to Tunisian poet, Huda Hajji by Nizar Sartawi
- Николай Гумилев – Леопарди (Набросок)
- The Masks of Love
- Amabel by Thomas Hardy
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
- Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
