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:
- The Land of the Exile by Rabindranath Tagore
- Colors by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Ольга Берггольц – Слепой
- After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лисица и Аист
- Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth
- Вера Полозкова – И тут он приваливается к оградке
- Николай Гумилев – Лиловый цветок
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
- Алишер Навои – О, мне бы крылья
- Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Луговской – Капитанский штиль
- Олег Чупров – На предназначенной орбите
- Robert Burns: Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa:
- Olney Hymn 23: Pleading For And With Youth by William Cowper
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
