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:
- Untitled XIII by Yunus Emre
- Full Moon and Little Frieda by Ted Hughes
- Again And Again, However We Know The Landscape Of Love by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
- Edmundi Trotii Epitaphium poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon
- Dreams poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Farmhouse Dirge poem – Alfred Austin
- Кондратий Рылеев – К портрету
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
- Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
- The Heäre by William Barnes
- Алексей Жемчужников – Я музыкальным чувством обладаю
- Николай Языков – Дева ночи
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 Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
