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 Catalpa Tree On West Twelfth Street poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Clear, with Light, Variable Winds poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Innermost One by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Tam O’ Shanter: A Tale
- On The Way To The Bottom by Shel Silverstein
- Оливер Голдсмит – Опровержение логики
- A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Орлан-белохвост
- Oh fair enough are sky and plain poem – A. E. Housman
- Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders by William Wordsworth
- William Henry Davies – William Henry Davies
- The Beam In Grenley Church by William Barnes
- “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Boston Evening Transcript by T. S. Eliot
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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
