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 Gardener LXXXIII: She Dwelt on the Hillside by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
- Альфред Теннисон – Пересекая Черту
- Василий Казин – Не потому ль к любви вселенской
- Anarchy by Satish Verma
- Terrible Ted poem – Alexander E. Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- The Prarie Battlements by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs:
- Владимир Корнилов – Зачем
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: First Version
- Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter by Robert Burns
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- To One who Loved not Poetry by Sappho
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 11 – The last and greatest herald by William Drummond
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.