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:
- Степан Щипачев – Атака
- Among The Sandhills
- The Visit by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Election Ballad for Westerha’ by Robert Burns
- On An Old Woman (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Mad As The Mist And Snow by William Butler Yeats
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Владимир Британишский – Клейнмихель
- Surprised By Joy by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я сказал врачу: “Я за все плачу!”
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В дальний путь идут корабли
- “Beyond the pasture’s withered bents ” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Alfresco Moment by Russell Edson
- Unspoken by Satish Verma
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
