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 Lament of the Border Cattle Thief by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 102: My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming by William Shakespeare
- The Song of the Borderguard by Robert Duncan
- Sonnet 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- Ок Мельникова – Заповедь номер одиннадцать
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- Abba Thule’s Lament For His Son Prince Le Boo by William Lisle Bowles
- Hear the Voice by William Blake
- Владимир Высоцкий – Новые левые, мальчики бравые
- February by Thomas Chatterton
- run home, run home butterfly by Raj Arumugam
- In Praise of Songs that Die by Vachel Lindsay
- Down By The Salley Gardens by William Butler Yeats
- Balin and Balan poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Иван Крылов – Лев состаревшийся (Басня)
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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
