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:
- Dirge of the Three Queens by William Shakespeare
- Nature’s song for the children by Raj Arumugam
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ah! Sun-Flower by William Blake
- Written In A Quarrel by William Cowper
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Владимир Высоцкий – День рождения лейтенанта милиции в ресторане “Берлин”
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
- Days Too Short by William Henry Davies
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сказка о кривом человечке
- The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
- Lets go by Vinko Kalinić
- Dica by Sappho
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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
