This passion is but an ember
Of a Sun, of a Fire, long set;
I could not live and remember,
And so I love and forget.
You say, and the tone is fretful,
That my mourning days were few,
You call me over forgetful–
My God, if you only knew!
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
- Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali
- Как папа женился
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- WARMING UP by Satish Verma
- The Idle Shepherd Boys by William Wordsworth
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Жемчужников – Раскаяние
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вьющееся растение
- Berket And The Stars by William Carlos Williams
- Joe Biden’s Torment
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- Ольга Седакова – Первая тетрадь
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.