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:
- Олег Бундур – Уроки
 - Fool by Rabindranath Tagore
 - On Seeing The Elgin Marbles For The First Time poem – John Keats poems
 - The Burnt-Out Spa by Sylvia Plath
 - The Decay Of A People by William Gilmore Simms
 - Федор Сологуб – Словами горькими надменных отрицаний
 - The Wanderer by W H Auden
 - Николай Языков – Сержант Сурмин
 - Leave This by Rabindranath Tagore
 - Reading by William Marr
 - My Friends by W. S. Merwin
 - Наум Коржавин – Двадцатые годы
 - His Holiness the Abbot by Yosa Buson
 - Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
 - Since We Must Die poem – Alfred Austin
 
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
- Harrow-on-the-Hill poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Guilt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Executive poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Dilton Marsh Halt poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Diary of a Church Mouse poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Devonshire Street W.1 poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Death In Leamington poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Dawlish poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Cornish Cliffs poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Christmas poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Business Girls poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Back From Australia poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - An Edwardian Sunday, Broomhill, Sheffield poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Subaltern’s Love Song poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Shropshire Lad poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Bay In Anglesey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Free the Holy Land — a poem about Palestine
 - Sepukku
 - Did Shakespeare write his own plays and poems?
 
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