Light the first of eight tonight—
the farthest candle to the right.
Light the first and second, too,
when tomorrow’s day is through.
Then light three, and then light four—
every dusk one candle more
Till all eight burn bright and high,
honoring a day gone by
When the Temple was restored,
rescued from the Syrian lord,
And an eight-day feast proclaimed—
The Festival of Lights—well named
To celebrate the joyous day
when we regained the right to pray
to our one God in our own way.
A few random poems:
- A Poet’s Epitaph by William Wordsworth
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- Poem poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication by Seamus Heaney
- Алексей Толстой – То было раннею весной
- The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Sonnet 111: O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: On Her Recovery
- The Princess: A Medley: Home they Brought her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Внимательное отношение к взяточникам
- The Time I Like Best by Roger McGough
- Love
- The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Омар Хайям – Кто мне скажет что завтра случится со мной
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
