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:
- Омар Хайям – Будь хмельным и влюбленным всегда
 - I Hoed and Trenched and Weeded poem – A. E. Housman
 - Владимир Маяковский – Слово “Товарищ” говоришь ты?! (РОСТА №449)
 - A poem to mankind by Walter William Safar
 - The Secret Garden by Rita Dove
 - Sonnet Of Motherhood XL poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
 - The Basset-Table : An Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope
 - Lead Soldiers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - The Tale of the Tiger-Tree by Vachel Lindsay
 - Нина Воронель – Осенняя симфония
 - Soliloquy In A Tub poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
 - Answer To A Sonnet By J.H.Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
 - Владимир Британишский – Памятник
 
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
- To Virgil poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - To The Queen poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Tithonus poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Talking Oak poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Revenge; A Ballad of the Fleet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Progress of Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 6) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 5) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 4) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 3) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 2) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess (part 1) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - The Princess: A Medley: Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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.