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:
- Incense by Vachel Lindsay
 - I Swear by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
 - Tezcotzinco
 - Такахама Кёси – Иокогама в утро моего возвращения из Франции
 - To A Young Friend, On His Arriving At Cambridge Wet, When No Rain Had Fallen There by William Cowper
 - Омар Хайям – О доколе ты по свету будешь кружить
 - Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
 - Swing Shift Blues
 - Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
 - Song from Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
 - Optimist poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
 - Владимир Бенедиктов – Певец
 - A Hundred Years Hence by Rabindranath Tagore
 - The Lament Of The Old Nurse
 - Seven Deadly Signs of Poetry Scams
 
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
- Владимир Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
 - Владимир Набоков – К Родине
 - Владимир Набоков – Из мира уползли, и ноют на луне
 - Владимир Набоков – И видел я, стемнели неба своды
 - Владимир Набоков – Глаза
 - Владимир Набоков – Есть в одиночестве свобода
 - Владимир Набоков – Еще безмолвствую и крепну я в тиши
 - Владимир Набоков – Цветет миндаль на перекрестке
 - Владимир Набоков – Будь со мной прозрачнее и проще
 - Владимир Набоков – Большая медведица
 - Владимир Набоков – Безумец
 - Владимир Набоков – Барс
 - Владимир Маяковский – Журнал “Крысодав”
 - Владимир Маяковский – Живой труп (РОСТА №182)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Жид
 - Владимир Маяковский – Земля наша обильна
 - Владимир Маяковский – Застрельщики
 - Владимир Маяковский – Заря Коммуны разгорается туго… (РОСТА №856)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Заносы не дают железным дорогам жить… (РОСТА №838)
 - Владимир Маяковский – Заграничная штучка
 
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.