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 Маяковский – Рабочие столицы, крестьяне окраины… (Роста №89)
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Степан Щипачев – Любовью дорожить умейте
- Among hills Apache red poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- Azure and Gold poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осенний клен
- Canto XLIX poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- lines_and_squares.html
- Ярослав Смеляков – Стихи, написанные в псковской гостинице
- The Song of the Women by Rudyard Kipling
- A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. by Phillis Wheatley
- Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
- The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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
