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:
- Юнна Мориц – Это вьюги хрустящий калач
- The First Part: Sonnet 5 – How that vast heaven intitled First is roll’d, by William Drummond
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
- Eveleen’s Bower by Thomas Moore
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Let me be to Thee as the circling bird poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- French kiss to knickers poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Glimpse. by Walt Whitman
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Extempore Reply To An Invitation:
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- Not Heaving from My Ribb’d Breast Only. by Walt Whitman
- Everything ends by Tanisha Avarsekar
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.