A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Gabriel whispered in mine ear
His archangelic poesie.
How can I write? I only hear
The sobbing murmur of the sea.
Raphael breathed and bade me pass
His rapt evangel to mankind;
I cannot even match, alas!
The ululation of the wind.
The gross grey gods like gargoyles spit
On every poet’s holy head;
No mustard-seed of truth or wit
In those curst furrows, quick or dead!
A tithe of what I know would cleanse
The leprosy of earth; and I –
My limits are like other men’s.
I must live dumb, and dumb must die!
A few random poems:
- Flowers From Sion: Sonnet 25 – More oft than once death whispered by William Drummond
- Ольга Высотская – Снежный кролик
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- Dark Wood, Dark Water by Sylvia Plath
- On a Scotch Bard, gone to the West Indies by Robert Burns
- lovers in nature by Raj Arumugam
- Archaic Torso Of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Infelice by Stevie Smith
- On the Danger of Procrastination by Abraham Cowley
- These Green-Going-to-Yellow by Marvin Bell
- Галина Гампер – Я вгоняла содержанье
- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ Хренова о Кузнецкстрое и о людях Кузнецка
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- The house where I was born (08) by Yves Bonnefoy
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
