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:
- Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
- Lament of Mary, Queen of Scots by Robert Burns
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров
- Gamajun, the Prophetic Bird poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- Eyesight poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- The Night poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Woman! When I Behold Thee Flippant, Vain poem – John Keats poems
- Shattered Dreams by SWARAJ PRASAD
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Весёлый воробей
- Виктор Гусев – Октябрьский смотр
- Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine
- Ольга Берггольц – Мне не поведать о моей утрате
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот о помощи голодающим отчет (Главполитпросвет №367)
- At Sea by Sara Teasdale
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.