A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Many are the doors of the spirit that lead
Into the inmost shrine:
And I count the gates of the temple divine,
Since the god of the place is God indeed.
And these are the gates that God decreed
Should lead to his house: – kisses and wine,
Cool depths of thought, youth without rest,
And calm old age, prayer and desire,
The lover’s and mother’s breast,
The fire of sense and the poet’s fire.
But he that worships the gates alone,
Forgetting the shrine beyond, shall see
The great valves open suddenly,
Revealing, not God’s radiant throne,
But the fires of wrath and agony.
A few random poems:
- Village Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: Versicles On Sign-Posts :
- Hear the Voice by William Blake
- Ольга Берггольц – Беатриче (строгая любовь)
- Boadicea poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow by Sara Teasdale
- The Heäre by William Barnes
- Stanzas by William Wordsworth
- The Promise of the Morning Star poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Ephemera by William Butler Yeats
- Омар Хайям – Мне с похмелья лекарство одно принеси
- The Land by Rudyard Kipling
- Spontaneous Me. by Walt Whitman
- Househunting by Mike Yuan
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 Exeter Road poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The End poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Cross-Roads poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Crescent Moon poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Captured Goddess poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bungler poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Boston Athenaeum poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Book of Hours of Sister Clotilde poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Blue Scarf poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Basket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Allies poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Teatro Bambino. Dublin, N. H. poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sword Blades and Poppy Seed poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sunshine through a Cobwebbed Window poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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.