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:
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, шахтер! В опасности трудовая республика твоя! (Агитплакаты)
- Imitated From The Japanese by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Заболоцкий – Движение
- Lyonesse
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- French kiss to knickers poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Orlando Furioso Canto 20 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Melville And Coghill – The Place Of The Little Hand poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ольга Высотская стихи: лучшие стихотворения для детей Высотской – Poetry Monster
- Waking up on a rainy morning by Preeth Nambiar
- Владимир Маяковский – Послание пролетарским поэтам
- Олег Бундур – Как мама машину выбирала
- Гавриил Державин – Афинейскому витязю
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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
