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:
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недолго
- A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Лисица на суде перед Обезьяной
- In Commendation Of Musick by William Strode
- A beach dawn by Sunil Sharma
- Николай Тихонов – Когда людям советским
- The Horn Of Egremont Castle by William Wordsworth
- Pomona by William Morris
- The Dawn
- Михаил Кузмин – Увы, любви своей не скрою
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабкор (Лбом пробив безграмотья горы)
- THE WHEELS by Satish Verma
- Robert Burns: Impromptu On Carron Iron Works:
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
