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:
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Going for the Cows. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
 - A Farewell To Youth poem – Alfred Austin
 - The State
 - How to Survive After Losing a Loved One
 - The Emotion Line by Rita Odessa Villaruel
 - The Hearth Eternal by Vachel Lindsay
 - Mark
 - Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
 - Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
 - Goodbye by Robert Creeley
 - Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
 - Top Benefits of Wearing Peridot Birthstone
 - Song from Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
 - Of Wit
 - Friend, your white beard sweeps the ground by Stephen Crane
 
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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, речка, речка Тебердинка
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, как весело листья летят
 - Аля Кудряшева – Зима застыла среди теней
 - Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
 - Аля Кудряшева – Я тут недавно встретила свое прошлое
 - Аля Кудряшева – Я работаю солнечной батареей
 - Аля Кудряшева – Я этой ночью уйду, не спи
 - Аля Кудряшева – Ходят катера по Малой Невке
 - Аля Кудряшева – Все не то чтобы исчезло
 - Аля Кудряшева – Вечер большого дня
 - Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
 - Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
 - Аля Кудряшева – Ты рисуй, девочка, небо пошире
 - Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
 - Аля Кудряшева – Тишина
 - Аля Кудряшева – Театр-весна
 - Аля Кудряшева – Такие слишком медовые эти луны
 - Аля Кудряшева – Снова current
 - Аля Кудряшева – Слишком уж зол ветер
 - Аля Кудряшева – Рыбный вальсок
 
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.