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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Памяти Скрябина
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Вульфу (Нe называй меня поэтом)
- The Lame Guy by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Вера Павлова – Вот и пришли времена
- Владимир Высоцкий – У нас вчера с позавчера
- Sonnet CXXIII by William Shakespeare
- A HYMN TO BACCHUS by Robert Herrick
- Invocation To The Earth, February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Кто за чем бежит
- Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”) by Robert Burns
- Apologia Pro Poemate Meo by Wilfred Owen
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Oil And Blood by William Butler Yeats
- A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Style Ideas For Vests For Women
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
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.