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:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 04 by Torquato Tasso
- Workin’ It Out by Shel Silverstein
- Жан де Лафонтен – Лев, сраженный Человеком
- The Death Of Myth-Making by Sylvia Plath
- From the bay at Tago poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
- Юрий Кузнецов – Простота милосердия
- How I saved Planet Earth by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Высоцкий – Надо с кем-то рассорить кого-то
- Николай Гумилев – Орел Синдбада
- Георгий Иванов – Альбомный сонет
- Early Pla Meäte by William Barnes
- Reconciliation by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Вопль кустаря
- Ode by William Wordsworth
- Orlando Furioso Canto 4 by Ludovico Ariosto
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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
