Be still, my heart, and listen,
For sweet and yet acute
I hear the wistful music
Of Khristna and his flute.
Across the cool, blue evenings,
Throughout the burning days,
Persuasive and beguiling,
He plays and plays and plays.
Ah, none may hear such music
Resistant to its charms,
The household work grows weary,
And cold the husband’s arms.
I must arise and follow,
To seek, in vain pursuit,
The blueness and the distance,
The sweetness of that flute!
In linked and liquid sequence,
The plaintive notes dissolve
Divinely tender secrets
That none but he can solve.
Oh, Khristna, I am coming,
I can no more delay.
“My heart has flown to join thee,”
How can my footsteps stay?
Beloved, such thoughts have peril;
The wish is in my mind
That I had fired the jungle,
And left no leaf behind,–
Burnt all bamboos to ashes,
And made their music mute,–
To save thee from the magic
Of Khristna and his flute.
A few random poems:
- I Would Live In Your Love by Sara Teasdale
- A Warning To My Readers by Wendell Berry
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Blue Moles by Sylvia Plath
- Conscripts by Siegfried Sassoon
- Paradise Lost: Book 10 poem – John Milton poems
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Федор Сологуб – Сладко мечтается мне
- Николай Заболоцкий – Противостояние Марса
- The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy
- Love Sonnet XXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Weak Is The Will Of Man, His Judgement Blind by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Lament: Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend’s Amour.
- King Arthur’s Men Have Come Again by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Набоков – Скитальцы
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
- Валерий Брюсов – Из лесной жути
- Валерий Брюсов – Из латинской антологии (Нежный стихов аромат услаждает безделие девы)
- Валерий Брюсов – Из детской книжки
- Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
- Валерий Брюсов – Из Александрийской антологии. К Сапфо
- Валерий Брюсов – Из ада изведенные (Астарта! Астарта! И ты посмеялась)
- Валерий Брюсов – Июль 1908
- Валерий Брюсов – Ленин
- Валерий Брюсов – Лед и уголь
- Валерий Брюсов – Пленный лев
- Валерий Брюсов – Пиршество войны
- Валерий Брюсов – Пифия
- Валерий Брюсов – Петербург (Здесь снов не ваял Сансовино)
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня североамериканских индейцев
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня гренландцев
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня девушки в тайге
- Валерий Брюсов – Последнее желанье
- Валерий Брюсов – После смерти Ленина
- Валерий Брюсов – После сенокоса
- Валерий Брюсов – После ночи бессонной
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.