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:
- Lamia. Part I poem – John Keats poems
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чувство
- Spenserian Stanzas On Charles Armitage Brown poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Гумилев – Лиловый цветок
- Because I Cannot Sleep by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Альфред Теннисон – Смерть Старого Года
- Absence: A Farewell Ode On Quitting School For Jesus College by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Temple poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book poem – Alexander Pope
- The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Along The Sun-Drenched Roadside by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Владимир Маяковский – С Польшей мир… (РОСТА №423)
- An Expostulation to Lord King by Thomas Moore
- Teenager by Patrick Connors
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 Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.