You are all that is lovely and light,
Aziza whom I adore,
And, waking, after the night,
I am weary with dreams of you.
Every nerve in my heart is tense and sore
As I rise to another morning apart from you.
I dream of your luminous eyes,
Aziza whom I adore!
Of the ruffled silk of your hair,
I dream, and the dreams are lies.
But I love them, knowing no more
Will ever be mine of you
Aziza, my life’s despair.
I would burn for a thousand days,
Aziza whom I adore,
Be tortured, slain, in unheard of ways
If you pitied the pain I bore.
You pity! Your bright eyes, fastened on other things,
Are keener to sting my soul, than scorpion stings!
You are all that is lovely to me,
All that is light,
One white rose in a Desert of weariness.
I only live in the night,
The night, with its fair false dreams of you,
You and your loveliness.
Give me your love for a day,
A night, an hour:
If the wages of sin are Death
I am willing to pay.
What is my life but a breath
Of passion burning away?
Away for an unplucked flower.
O Aziza whom I adore,
Aziza my one delight,
Only one night, I will die before day,
And trouble your life no more.
A few random poems:
- Madonna of the Evening Flowers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Taking On by Satish Verma
- A Song of Peach-Blossom River by Wang Wei
- little Sara’s sleep by Raj Arumugam
- Song of the Bowmen of Shu poem – Ezra Pound poems
- It Is March by W. S. Merwin
- The River Of Bees by W. S. Merwin
- “And Is It Among Rude Untutored Dales” by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Разговор с товарищем Лениным
- Николай Карамзин – Из письма к И. И. Дмитриеву (Что ж может быть любви и счастия быстрее)
- A Song : On The Green Margin by William Cowper
- Blue Period by Shaunna Harper
- Of Myself – the Essay and Poems on Myself by Abraham Cowley
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Степанов – Следом за летом осень
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
- Зинаида Александрова – В гости к бабушке
- Зинаида Александрова – Утки, беленькие грудки
- Зинаида Александрова – У моря
- Зинаида Александрова – Топотушки
- Зинаида Александрова – Таня и волчок
- Зинаида Александрова – Смешные человечки
- Зинаида Александрова – Шарик
- Зинаида Александрова – Сама
- Зинаида Александрова – Ромашки
- Зинаида Александрова – Раз – два – три – четыре – пять
- Зинаида Александрова – Прятки
- Зинаида Александрова – Подснежник
- Зинаида Александрова – Песня моряков
- Зинаида Александрова – Одуванчик
- Зинаида Александрова – Новый снег
- Зинаида Александрова – Новые ясли
- Зинаида Александрова – Невидимка
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- Зинаида Александрова – Молодой месяц
- Зинаида Александрова – Мне рукою машет маленький сынок
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.