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:
- Down in the valley by Marcin Malek
- Ольга Берггольц – Мой дом
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- Омар Хайям – Долго ль будешь скорбеть и печалиться, друг
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- American Feuillage. by Walt Whitman
- Old Man Poet by Raj Arumugam
- The Ice Palace by William Cowper
- Георгий Иванов – Теплятся жаркие свечи
- How to Increase Your Faith
- Route Marchin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 131: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Poor Mailie’s Elegy:
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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
