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:
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
- Омар Хайям о людях: Стихи, рубаи о человеке Омара Хайяма – Poetry Monster
- Лебедев-Кумач – Священная война: стих “Вставай, страна огромная”, текст песни на Poetry Monster
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Василий Жуковский – 19 марта 1823
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
- A Meditation In Time Of War by William Butler Yeats
- Кондратий Рылеев – К Надежде
- a_city_one_wish.html
- What We Leave Behind by Robert Saltzman
- Robert Burns: Blythe Was She:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Эзопово объяснение одного завещания
- Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
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Poems in English
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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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.