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:
- The Two by W H Auden
- Annie Marshall the Foundling by William Topaz McGonagall
- An Epitaph (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Владимир Корнилов – Париж
- November by Thomas Hood
- Invern poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юрий Левитанский – Иронический человек
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы вместе грабили одну и ту же хату
- Egotist poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Common A-Took In by William Barnes
- Владимир Британишский – Перед дверью
- Sonnet I. To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- The Highland Broach by William Wordsworth
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
