A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Old ghosts that death forgot to ferry
Across the Lethe of the years –
These are my friends, and at their tears
I weep and with their mirth am merry.
On a high tower, whose battlements
Give me all heaven at a glance,
I lie long summer nights in trance,
Drowsed by the murmurs and the scents
That rise from earth, while the sky above me
Merges its peace with my soul’s peace,
Deep meeting deep. No stir can move me,
Nought break the quiet of my release:
In vain the windy sunlight raves
At the hush and gloom of polar caves.
A few random poems:
- Cells by Rudyard Kipling
- A Girl Sang a Song poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- A Terre (being the philosophy of many soldiers) by Wilfred Owen
- Couplet poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- “Beyond the pasture’s withered bents ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Песня североамериканских индейцев
- Give Me Strength by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
- Robert Burns: On James Grieve, Laird Of Boghead, Tarbolton :
- To a Historian. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On General Dumourier’s Desertion From The French Republican Army:
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
- Sonnet 115: Those lines that I before have writ do lie by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – За окном только вьюга, смотри
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.