Nay, ask me not. I would not dare pretend
To constant passion and a life-long trust.
They will desert thee, if indeed they must.
How can we guess what Destiny will send-
Smiles of fair fortune, or black storms to rend
What even now is shaken by a gust?
The fire will burn, or it will die in dust.
We cannot tell until the final end.
And never vow was forged that could confine
Aught but the body of the thing whereon
Its pledge was stamped. The inner soul divine,
That thinks of going, is already gone.
When faith and love need bolts upon the door,
Faith is not faith, and love abides no more.
A few random poems:
- God fashioned the ship of the world carefully. by Stephen Crane
- Олег Бундур – Летняя гроза
- The Snake Charmer by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: The Deuks Dang O’er My Daddie:
- Epistle to Robert Graham, Esq., of Fintry by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: O Kenmure’s On And Awa, Willie:
- To the Duke of Marlborough, upon His Removal From All His Places by William Somervile
- Омар Хайям – О, кумир, Дружбу ты почему прервала
- Epithalamion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Rose Of The World by William Butler Yeats
- Morning Poem #59 by Wanda Phipps
- A Poem For Ashleigh (July) by Stevens Cadet
- A Minuet Of Mozart’s by Sara Teasdale
- Fragment of an Ode to Maia poem – John Keats poems
- Mr. Eliot’s Sunday Morning Service by T. S. Eliot
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.