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:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Искушение
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
- Erasing Amyloo by Russell Edson
- Cromwell’s Return poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5 poem – Alexander Pope
- Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Tori Soorat Kay Balihaari poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Весенняя ночь
- Maktoob
- A Winter Ship by Sylvia Plath
- I Am Me by Patrick Neo Mabiletsa
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ревность
- the secrets , we hide by tulip
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Narva and Mored by Thomas Chatterton
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
