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:
- Джон Донн – Ворожба над портретом
- Her Vision In The Wood by William Butler Yeats
- Fragment—Her Flwoing Locks by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – У этой матери кормящей
- From an Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Grammer A-Crippled by William Barnes
- The Exeter Road poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка ни про что, или Что случилось в Африке
- Шекспир – Сонет 50
- My Own Heart Let Me Have More Have Pity On; Let poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Angels By The Door by William Barnes
- Олег Бундур – Что будет, если
- Николай Глазков – 9-е мая
- Омар Хайям – Долго ль будешь скорбеть и печалиться, друг
- Germs. by Walt Whitman
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.