A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Here rests beneath this hospitable spot
A youth to flats and flatties not unknown.
The Plymouth Brethren gave it to him hot;
Trinity, Cambridge, claimed him for her own.
At chess a minor master, Hoylake set
His handicap a 2. Love drove him crazy;
Thrre thousand women used to call him “pet”;
In other gardens daffodil or daisy?
He climbed a lot of mountains in his time.
He stalked the tiger, bear and elephant.
he wrote a stack of poems, some sublime
Some not. Plays, essays, pictures, tales -my aunt!
He had the gift of laughing at himself.
Most affably he talked and walked with God.
And now the silly bastard’s on the shelf,
We’ve buried him beneath another sod.
A few random poems:
- Sonnet 39: O, how thy worth with manners may I sing by William Shakespeare
- Nasrudin’s donkey eats poetry by Raj Arumugam
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Константин Бальмонт – Морское дно
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка ни про что, или Что случилось в Африке
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- word of God by Raj Arumugam
- Sonnet Iv
- What The Doctor Said by Raymond Carver
- Николай Заболоцкий – Обводной канал
- Владимир Высоцкий – Войны и голодухи натерпелися мы всласть
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- The Immigrant
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
