A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
I am not one of those who sip,
Like a quotidian bock,
Cheap idylls from a languid lip
Prepared to yawn or mock.
I wait the indubitable word,
The great Unconscious Cue.
Has it been spoken and unheard?
Spoken, perhaps, by you …?
A few random poems:
- English Poetry. William Barnes. Third Collection. The Broken Heart. Уильям Барнс.
- Жан де Лафонтен – Виноградник и Олень
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- (Inner Tube) by Michael Ondaatje
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк, Мать и Ребенок
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Москва
- The Masks of Love
- The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes by William Butler Yeats
- Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- By Callimachus by William Cowper
- The Boston Athenaeum poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Подписи к рисункам в журнале “ВОБ”
- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
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 Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.