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:
- If You Only Knew by Robert Desnos
 - Олег Бундур – Там, где мы родились
 - Вероника Тушнова – Зеркало
 - A View of the Han River by Wang Wei
 - Fog poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Николай Языков – Дева ночи
 - Какие яблоки в саду
 - For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her by William Strode
 - Closure by Suchi Gaur
 - To Ireland poem – Alfred Austin
 - Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка о слухах
 - Imitation Of Spenser poem – John Keats poems
 - Scythe Song poem – Andrew Lang poems
 - fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
 - Шекспир – Я лью потоки горьких слез – Сонет 44
 
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
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Northern Farmer: New Style poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Move Eastward, Happy Earth poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Morte D’Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Minnie and Winnie poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Memoriam A. H. H.: 72. Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Memoriam A. H. H.: 67. When on my bed the moonlight fall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Mariana In The South poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Mariana poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Lucretius poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Locksley Hall poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Lilian poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Late, Late, So Late poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - Lady Clare poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
 - In Memoriam A. HIn Memoriam A. H. H.: 56. So careful of the type? but no.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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
	
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.