by Ahmad Shawqi
O’ God !
I wander all day and pine through time,
And seek some comfort in my rhyme.
The noblest of rhymes overflow with love,
The sweetest line – the musical and pure –
Are written down for the heart as a cure.
Men turn as they pay to the holy place;
To Laila’s home I turn my face.
Twice people say their prayers at dawn;
When I think of her’
I know not the times I repeat my own,
Laila hid behind a crowd;
Her lip betrayed a smile,
Like the break of morn,
Or the sun as it shone.
Her sweet breath filled the air,
Made perfumed roses seem less fair.
A shiver ran through my form
From head to toe
As though my eye had met her own.
Let’s love:
All men are mortal but love never dies:
Laila and I loved with young eyes:
Our love story which is now alive,
To our successors will continue to survive.
Generations of men will die and go past,
But our true love will forever last.
A few random poems:
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- The Child Is Father To The Man poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Death of Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho
- at Weeping Face. by Walt Whitman
- Learn Numbers With Fun Counting Rhymes For Kids
- Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я счастлив, тайный яд течёт в моей крови
- Echo by Thomas Moore
- Poor Fisherman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Водой наполненные горсти
- Нина Воронель – Бывает, что вещи меня ненавидят
- Out Of The Window
- Nijole Miliauskaite – Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Carter by William Barnes
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
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- Катя Пиксаева – Давай поговорим о доброте
- Картошка
- Кастрюль и сковородок музыкант
- Карл Сэндберг – Три слова
- Карл Сэндберг – Анекдот о цикуте для двух афинян
- Карл Сэндберг – Джаз-фантазия
- Карл Сэндберг – Молитва стали
- Карина, ты моя любимая
- Кариночка, любимая ты наша
- Карие глазки, длинные ноги
- Карина, моей души ты яркий свет
- Какой чудесный, маленький комочек
- Какой ты сегодня взволнованный
- Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
- Какое это счастье – Материнство
- Какое имя чудное Валерия
- Какие яблоки в саду
- Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
- Как жаль, что много лет назад
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
