A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
My close-walled soul has never known
That innermost darkness, dazzling sight,
Like the blind point, whence the visions spring
In the core of the gazer’s chrysolite…
The mystic darkness that laps God’s throne
In a splendour beyond imagining,
So passing bright.
But the many twisted darknesses
That range the city to and fro,
In aimless subtlety pass and part
And ebb and glutinously flow;
Darkness of lust and avarice,
Of the crippled body and the crooked heart…
These darknesses I know.

A few random poems:
- Elixer Vitæ poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о красной шапочке
- Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands by Robert Burns
- In A Garden by Sara Teasdale
- Fight to a Finish by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки (Милкой мне в подарок бурка…)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не надо
- Такахама Кёси – Иокогама в утро моего возвращения из Франции
- The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling
- Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце
- A Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- Николай Карамзин – Соломонова мудрость, или мысли, выбранные из Экклезиаста
- Robert Burns: Poortith Cauld And Restless Love:
- Оливер Голдсмит – Послание в прозе и стихах
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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
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.