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:
- Как тяжело, когда идет война
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Колыбельная
- Black riders came from the sea. by Stephen Crane
- To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Языков – А. А. Воейковой (На петербургскую дорогу)
- Oh, Is It Love? poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Гумилев – Крыса
- Epigram to Miss Jean Scott by Robert Burns
- Elegy On An Australian Schoolboy poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Огюст Барбье – Берега моря
- A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
- I’m Out O’ Door by William Barnes
- Ольга Берггольц – Слышала, приедешь к нам не скоро ты
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот и настал этот час опять
- Otho The Great – Act V poem – John Keats poems
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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