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:
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Глазков – Последний зимний
- Ольга Ермолаева – Просила тебя у мертвой и выпросила у мертвой
- Омар Хайям – О, не растите дерево печали
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь автомобиль
- Lucy Gray [or Solitude] by William Wordsworth
- The Key Role of Creativity in Advertising
- Doomes-Day: The Ninth Houre by William Alexander
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- The ravings which my enemy uttered I heard within my heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- He Reproves The Curlew by William Butler Yeats
- Вероника Тушнова – Костер
- Pax Britannica poem – Alfred Austin
- An Interchanging Poetry Expression Of Love by Mac McGovern
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.