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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
- A Sorcerer Bids Farewell To Seem by Sylvia Plath
- Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Домрин – Якутия
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заметки о некоторой публицистике
- Epigram on the same Laird’s Country Seat by Robert Burns
- Николай Карамзин – К портрету Ломоносова
- Hawk Roosting by Ted Hughes
- On The Death of Mr. Snider Murder’d By Richardson by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимназист или строитель
- Юнна Мориц – Большой секрет для маленькой компании
- Владимир Набоков – Простая песня, грусть простая
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- Conviction (iii) by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Степанов – Весёлый транспорт
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.