Lie still, Beloved, I also see the day
Shoot his white arrows through the trembling sky,
But what is dawn to us, who cast away
All sense of time that mars our ecstasy ?
The scented orange bushes check the breeze
Granting in tribute many waxen stars,
And aromatic Eucalyptus trees
Defy the sun with grey-green scimitars.
Since fate has given us this garden love,
And Time and Space, for once, have acquiesced,
Ah, take no heed of paling skies above
Let us deem night is with us yet, and rest.
Let us lie still and drift away in dreams.
Back to the jewelled kingdom of the night.
Whose golden stars with dimly radiant gleams
Lit up your loveliness for my delight.
Once we are risen all the cares of day
Will seize and bind us to their wanton will.
Why should we own that night has passed away ?
Oh, as you value love, lie still, lie still!
A few random poems:
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- To the Fringed Gentian by William Cullen Bryant
- In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
- Robert Burns: Lines To An Old Sweetheart:
- Song. Hush, Hush! Tread Softly! poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 05
- Владимир Луговской – Та, которую я знал
- A Padlock for the Mouth by William Somervile
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- Владимир Маяковский – Точеные слоны
- Me Imperturbe. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Говорят, лезу прямо под нож
- The Princess (part 6) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir:
- Гавриил Державин – Песенка
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
- Валерий Брюсов – Я жизнью пьян. Напиток жгучий
- Василий Каменский – Из Симеиза в Алупку
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- Василий Казин – Ожидание
- Василий Казин – Ну, тебя ль, далекая
- Василий Казин – Не потому ль к любви вселенской
- Василий Казин – На могиле матери
- Василий Казин – Мой отец простой водопроводчик
- Василий Казин – Кирилл и Мефодий
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
- Василий Казин – Гармонист
- Василий Казин – Эпоха
- Василий Кубанёв – 12 июля
- Василий Курочкин – Юмористическим чутьем
- Василий Курочкин – Старая песня
- Василий Курочкин – Счастливец
- Василий Курочкин – Раздумье
- Василий Курочкин – Поэту адвокату
- Василий Курочкин – Ни в мать, ни в отца
- Василий Курочкин – На погребение бедового критика
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
Violet Nicolson ( 1865 – 1904); otherwise known as Adela Florence Nicolson (née Cory), was an English poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of Laurence Hope, however she became known as Violet Nicolson. In the early 1900s, she became a best-selling author. She committed suicide and is buried in Madras, now Chennai, India.