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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Два гренадера и один адмирал
- In a Sombre Mood by Satish Verma
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- A Tombless Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge
- A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love by William Cowper
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Обновление
- Behold, As Goblins Dark Of Mien by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas
- A Silence poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Заболоцкий – Поэт
- In the Old Age of the Soul poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
- Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace by William Cowper
- Ольга Седакова – В незапамятных зимах
- Going for Water by Robert Frost
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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.