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:
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- Иван Киуру – Роща заалела
- Валерий Брюсов – Последнее желанье
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Robert Burns: Altho’ He Has Left Me:
- The Reef poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Тропа
- Джон Китс – Что ж, по горам и по долам
- A Tribute to Mr Murphy and the Blue Ribbon Army by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Степанов – Барби (Буква Б)
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- The Connaught Rangers by Winifred Mary Letts
- Waiting For The Beloved — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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.