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:
- Ontological by Maggie Anderson
- Владимир Луговской – Алайский рынок
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
- Владимир Орлов – Где петушок носит гребешок
- Solomon And The Witch by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet CXXXV by William Shakespeare
- The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Bleäke’s House In Blackmwore by William Barnes
- Bees A-Zwarmen by William Barnes
- The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
- November by Walter de la Mare
- An Autumn Homily poem – Alfred Austin
- Олег Бундур – Идем мы с дедом
- Василий Тредиаковский – Мое сердце все было в страсти
- Robert Burns: Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods Near Drumlanrig:
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 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
- Sonnet I
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
