Far in the Further East the skilful craftsman
Fashioned this fancy for the West’s delight.
This rose and azure Dragon, crouching softly
Upon the satin skin, close-grained and white.
And you lay silent, while his slender needles
Pricked the intricate pattern on your arm,
Combining deftly Cruelty and Beauty,
That subtle union, whose child is charm.
Charm irresistible: the lovely something
We follow in our dreams, but may not reach.
The unattainable Divine Enchantment,
Hinted in music, never heard in speech.
This from the blue design exhales towards me,
As incense rises from the Homes of Prayer,
While the unfettered eyes, allured and rested,
Urge the forbidden lips to stoop and share;
Share in the sweetness of the rose and azure
Traced in the Dragon’s form upon the white
Curve of the arm. Ah, curb thyself, my fancy,
Where would’st thou drift in this enchanted flight?
A few random poems:
- The Munich Mannequins by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet CXII by William Shakespeare
- Mahomed Akrams Appeal To The Stars
- To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lady Mary Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Михаил Лермонтов – Забудь опять свои надежды
- A Fairy Song by William Shakespeare
- State Fair Time by Michael S Wilson
- The Settler by Rudyard Kipling
- Weary not of us, for we are very beautiful by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Despair by Samuel Coleridge
- Kim by Rudyard Kipling
- Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Song—Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ by Robert Burns
- Australia
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
- Николай Глазков – Дождь
- Николай Глазков – Должны мы все свой пай нести
- Николай Глазков – Девятое мая
- Николай Глазков – Давно хотел сложить стихи
- Николай Глазков – Чтоб улыбалось счастье
- Николай Глазков – Что ни год, идёт вперёд
- Николай Глазков – Чингисхан, Батый, Аттила
- Николай Глазков – Четыре времени года
- Николай Глазков – Бывают в нашей жизни величины
- Николай Глазков – Быть хочешь постоянно пьяным
- Николай Глазков – Была зима
- Николай Глазков – Богатырское распутье
- Николай Глазков – Без поражений нет побед
- Николай Глазков – Баллада о трактористе и ритуальном камне
- Николай Глазков – Бабье лето
- Николай Глазков – А минувшее все непонятнее ребусов
- Николай Глазков – 9-е мая
- Николай Гербель – Зной
- Николай Гербель – Введение к поэме
- Николай Гербель – В дорогу
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.