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:
- A Minuet Of Mozart’s by Sara Teasdale
- I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Bonnie House O’ Airly poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Памятник
- Кондратий Рылеев – Не вчера ли в хороводе
- Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
- a walk in the forest by Raj Arumugam
- I Arise And Go Down To The River
- Иван Бунин – Богиня
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Георгий Иванов – Балтийское море дымилось
- Низами Гянджеви – Если б радость не лучилась
- I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
- Николай Глазков – Четыре времени года
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
