A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
[Dedicated to Frank Harris, editor of Vanity Fair]
On the black night, beneath the winter moon,
I clothed me in the limbs of Codia,
Swooning my soul out into her red throat,
So that the glimmer of our skins, the tune
Og our ripe rythm, seemed the hideous play
Of death-worms crawling on a corpse,afloat
With life that takes its thirst
Only from things accurst.
Closer than Clodia’s clasp, Death had me down
To his black heart, and fed upon my breath,
So that we seemed a stilness -whiter than
The stars, more silent than the stars, a crown
Of Stars ! For in the icy kiss of death
I found that God that is denied to man
So long as love and thought
And life avail him aught.

A few random poems:
- The Fiddler Of Dooney by William Butler Yeats
- He Hears That His Beloved Has Become Engaged by Philip Larkin
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- Виктор Гончаров – Когда тебя бессонной ночью
- Вера Павлова – Попытка не пытка
- Humankind – How Limitless In Genius by Michael Levy
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Есть много всяких мук – и много я их знаю)
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Чехарда в палате… (РОСТА №881)
- They Did Not Expect This by Vernon Scannell
- The Instructor by Rudyard Kipling
- Федор Сологуб – Под сению креста рыдающая мать
- Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
- Юнна Мориц – Вместо сноски
- Making Light Of It by Philip Levine
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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