My paramour was loneliness
And lying by the sea,
Soft songs of sorrow and distress
He did beget in me.
Later another lover came
More meet for my desire,
“Radiant Beauty” was his name;
His sons had wings of fire!
A few random poems:
- Her Anxiety by William Butler Yeats
- To Chadaev poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно Октябрь празднуют… (РОСТА №398)
- Insect039s Nest
- Robert Burns: Lines On The Commemoration Of Rodney’s Victory:
- The Clime Of My Birth by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- I Keep Six Honest… by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Вопль кустаря
- Шекспир – Как и любовь – Сонет 151
- Ellen Irwin Or The Braes Of Kirtle by William Wordsworth
- A Wintry Picture (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Глазков – Рассчитывая на успех
- Ольга Берггольц – Синеглазый мальчик, синеглазый
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- Conqueror by Russell Hughes Ragsdale
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.