There are some nights when
sleep plays coy,
aloof and disdainful.
And all the wiles
that I employ to win
its service to my side
are useless as wounded pride,
and much more painful.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Another Weeping Woman by Wallace Stevens
- For My Mother
- Disappointment by Tony Hoagland
- To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- Passion For Light
- Song from Aella by Thomas Chatterton
- An Ode to the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- Gimmick In A Geisha by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Алексей Плещеев – Цветок
- The Further Bank by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Night poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Георгий Иванов – Аспазия, всегда Аспазия
- Николай Карамзин – К бедному поэту
- Antinous
- “If I Must Go” by Sara Teasdale
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
