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:
- The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
- Robert Burns: Inscribed On A Work Of Hannah More’s: Presented to the Author by a Lady.
- Insolent couplets
- Earth’s Answer by William Blake
- Гавриил Державин – Философы, пьяный и трезвый
- The Law of the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- STRIPED NOTHINGS by Satish Verma
- Others, I Am Not the First poem – A. E. Housman
- Алишер Навои – Чаша, солнце отражая
- Where Be Ye Going, You Devon Maid? poem – John Keats poems
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наводчица
- Spanish Banks
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
