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:
- The Pleäce Our Own Ageän by William Barnes
- The Blacksmith by Olga Dytyniak
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- Drying Clothes poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Daniel Dwithen, The Wise Chap by William Barnes
- To the Pay Toilet by Marge Piercy
- Adela poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Вера Звягинцева – Психея
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Так говорил танкистам политрук
- Нина Воронель – Бабий стих
- A Highly Valuable Chain Of Thoughts poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Blown from the west by Yosa Buson
- Olney Hymn 54: Love Constraining To Obedience by William Cowper
- Jonathan: The First Booke by William Alexander
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.