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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё было не так, как хотелось вначале
- Владимир Маяковский – Про гидру контрреволюции сегодня сказ (РОСТА № 79)
- Sonnet Xii
- The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- Mad Day In March by Philip Levine
- Николай Некрасов – Я не люблю иронии твоей
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 9 из 15
- Владимир Маяковский – Расчистка пути (РОСТА)
- Владимир Маяковский – Что делать, чтоб сытому быть?.. (РОСТА №219)
- Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth
- O You Who’ve gone on Pilgrimage by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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