A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Noonday upon the Alpine meadows
Pours its avalanche of Light
And blazing flowers: the very shadows
Translucent are and bright.
It seems a glory that nought surpasses–
Passion of angels in form and hue–
When, lo! from the jewelled heaven of the grasses
Leaps a lightning of sudden blue.
Dimming the sun-drunk petals,
Bright even unto pain,
The grasshopper flashes, settles,
And then is quenched again.
A few random poems:
- An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John by Thomas Carew
- Breathing Stars, Inspiration and the Labyrinth of Correspondence
- A Hermit Thrush poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXVII poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Sonnet # 2 by Luis A. Estable
- Владимир Орлов – Цветное молоко
- Gliding Over All. by Walt Whitman
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 83. Dip down upon the northern shore poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Заболоцкий – Испытание воли
- Михаил Лермонтов – Ах! Ныне я не тот совсем
- Grief An’ Gladness by William Barnes
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 5 к статуе Петра Великого
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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.