A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Your hair was full of roses in the dewfall as we danced,
The sorceress enchanting and the paladin entranced,
In the starlight as we wove us in a web of silk and steel
Immemorial as the marble in the halls of Boabdil,
In the pleasuance of the roses with the fountains and the yews
Where the snowy Sierra soothed us with the breezes and the dews!
In the starlight as we trembled from a laugh to a caress,
And the God came warm upon us in our pagan allegresse.
Was the Baile de la Bona too seductive? Did you feel
Through the silence and the softness all the tension of the steel?
For your hair was full of roses, and my flesh was full of thorns,
And the midnight came upon us worth a million crazy morns.
Ah! my Gipsy, my Gitana, my Saliya! were you fain
For the dance to turn to earnest?; O the sunny land of Spain!
My Gitana, my Saliya! more delicious than a dove!
With your hair aflame with roses and your lips alight with love!
Shall I see you, shall I kiss you once again? I wander far
From the sunny land of summer to the icy Polar Star.
I shall find you, I shall have you! I am coming back again
From the filth and fog to seek you in the sunny land of Spain.
I shall find you, my Gitana, my Saliya! as of old
With your hair aflame with roses and your body gay with gold.
I shall find you, I shall have you, in the summer and the south
With our passion in your body and our love upon your mouth;
With our wonder and our worship be the world aflame anew!
My Gitana, my Saliya! I am coming back to you!
A few random poems:
- She Was A Phantom Of Delight by William Wordsworth
- Autumn Song by W H Auden
- Алексей Толстой – Темнота и туман застилают мне путь
- Владимир Британишский – Крик ворон
- John Barleycorn by Robert Burns
- Владимир Костров – Срок настал, московская богема
- The Passing Of Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- Kimchi
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Солоухин – Утро
- Confessions of a Software Engineer by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- I Loved
- Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
- Юнна Мориц – Дышать любовью, пить её, как воздух
- Какая мама молодец
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
- All Things Will Die poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- A Farewell poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Villanelle: The Psychological Hour poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ts’ai Chi’h poem – Ezra Pound poems
- These Fought in Any Case poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Tree poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Seafarer poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Return poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Plunge poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Needle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Garret poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Garden poem – Ezra Pound poems
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
