A sky intensely blue, a low, white wall
Against it heaps of up-blown yellow sand,
A sleeping figure, holding in her hand
Some scarlet cactus blossom; that was all.
And yet so mellowly the sunbeams fell
Upon the sunburnt limbs, such subtle play
Of rosy light and tender shadow lay
Upon the upturned face, that all could tell
An artist painted with a poet’s eyes;
And warmly an enthusiastic glow
Ran through the groups that criticised, below
While one, who gazed with pleasure and surprise
Said, and I do not think he said amiss,
“He was her lover when he painted this!”
A few random poems:
- Owl by Sylvia Plath
- In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
- Earthy Anecdote by Wallace Stevens
- Robert Burns: The Whistle -A Ballad:
- Canal Bank Walk by Patrick Kavanagh
- Grammer A-Crippled by William Barnes
- Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
- Илья Эренбург – Я слышу всё, и горестные шепоты
- Verses Written At Bath, On Finding The Heel Of A Shoe by William Cowper
- Married Peäir’s Love Walk by William Barnes
- Glitches by Satish Verma
- Starlight
- A Conceited Mistake by Vasko Popa
- Lines Written On A Blank Leaf In A Copy Of The Author’s Poem “The Excursion,” by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: News, Lassies, News:
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
- Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Travelling Bear poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Towns in Colour poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To-Morrow To Fresh Woods And Pastures New poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- To A Husband poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Travelling Bear poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Swans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Starling poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Pond poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Poet poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Letter poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Great Adventure Of Max Breuck poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Garden By Moonlight poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Dinner-Party poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cremona Violin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Country House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Artist poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Prayer For Lightning poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Prayer For A Profusion Of Sunflowers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Orange Of Midsummer poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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.