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 Высоцкий – Лукоморья больше нет
- Dining-Room Tea by Rupert Brooke
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка о слухах
- Ольга Ермолаева – Я так же, как ты, от стыда опускаю ресницы
- Владимир Костров – Просыпаюсь от сердечной боли
- Heaven by Philip Levine
- Everlasting Wander by Rixa White
- Robert Burns: Theniel Menzies’ Bonie Mary:
- Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
- Омар Хайям – Не зли других и сам не злись
- Такахама Кёси – Неспешно ступает
- Great Men Have Been Among Us by William Wordsworth
- An Epitaph On Mr. Fishborne The Great London Benefactor, And His Executor by William Strode
- Prayer of St. Francis Xavier poem – Alexander Pope
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
- the-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.html
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.