A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
HOW clear under the trees,
How softly the music flows,
Rippling from one still pool to another
Into the lake of silence.
A few random poems:
- Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны
- For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her by William Strode
- Night Shift by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: A Bottle And Friend:
- The Passing Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: The Dean Of Faculty: A New Ballad
- Michaelangelo by Vachel Lindsay
- A Conceit by Maya Angelou
- Алексей Плещеев – Дети века все больные
- A Lovers’ Quarrel by Robert Browning
- Lovers in Cafe by Aiyah De Torres
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не заманишь меня на эстрадный концерт
- Ольга Берггольц – Сестре
- Олег Бундур – Глухарь
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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

Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.