Before being turned to ashes
by the wrath of the thunderbolt,
he had forced the steer of the tempest
to kneel before his might.
To test
the faith of old
he had worn out his teeth
on the locks of ancient gates.
On the most out-of-the way paths
he struggled,
an unexpected passer-by
whose voice every thicket and bridge
recognized.
A few random poems:
- To S.M., A Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works by Phillis Wheatley
- The Bull Moose
- Жан Расин – Когда мы вышли из Трезенских врат
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- Pioneers! O Pioneers! by Walt Whitman
- Ash-Boughs poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Hokku Poems in Four Seasons by Yosa Buson
- Юлия Друнина – Царевна
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Blue Moles by Sylvia Plath
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Вера Павлова – Всходить на костёр Жанною
- Sonnet. Written Upon The Top Of Ben Nevis poem – John Keats poems
- At Algeciras; A Meditaton Upon Death by William Butler Yeats
- The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille
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
- A Snow-White Lily poem – Alfred Austin
- A Sleepless Night poem – Alfred Austin
- A Shakespeare Memorial poem – Alfred Austin
- A Royal Home-Coming poem – Alfred Austin
- A Reply To A Pessimist poem – Alfred Austin
- A Rare Guest poem – Alfred Austin
- A Question poem – Alfred Austin
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
- A Portrait poem – Alfred Austin
- A Point Of Honour poem – Alfred Austin
- A Poet’s Eightieth Birthday poem – Alfred Austin
- A November Note poem – Alfred Austin
- A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
- A Meeting poem – Alfred Austin
- A March Minstrel poem – Alfred Austin
- A Letter From Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- A Last Request poem – Alfred Austin
- A Fragment poem – Alfred Austin
- A Florilegium poem – Alfred Austin
- A Farmhouse Dirge poem – Alfred Austin
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
