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:
- Владимир Степанов – Лисички
- In a Subway Station by Sara Teasdale
- How Long by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Алексей Жемчужников – Сказка о живых мертвецах
- On An Infant (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- When the Walls Were White by Noele Martin
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Robert Burns: Contented Wi’ Little And Cantie Wi’ Mair:
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
- A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
- Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer by Rabindranath Tagore
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- A REQUEST TO THE GRACES by Robert Herrick
- Robert Burns: The Braes O’ Killiecrankie:
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
- Robert Burns: Come, Let Me Take Thee To My Breast:
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Queen O’ The Fair:
- Robert Burns: Whistle, And I’ll Come To You, My Lad:
- Robert Burns: By Allan Stream:
- Robert Burns: Had I A Cave:
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair:
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Laird Of Laggan:
- Robert Burns: Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway:
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On A Lap-Dog Named Echo:
- Robert Burns: Bonie Jean-A Ballad:
- Robert Burns: O Were My Love Yon Lilac Fair:
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
- Robert Burns: Logan Braes:
- Robert Burns: The Last Time I Came O’er The Moor:
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army:
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- Robert Burns: Extempore Reply To An Invitation:
- Robert Burns: Kirk and State Excisemen:
- Robert Burns: The Raptures Of Folly:
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.