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:
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- If It Were Beginning by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Minoan Porcelain
- Ольга Берггольц – Детскосельский парк
- Crow’s Nerve Fails by Ted Hughes
- It Takes a While to Disappear by Ralph Angel
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прощание с саблею
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка
- Robert Burns: Epistle To John Maxwell, ESQ., Of Terraughty : On His Birthday.
- Sonnet III. Written On The Day That Mr. Leigh Hunt Left Prison poem – John Keats poems
- If by Rudyard Kipling
- An Empty Threat by Robert Frost
- Омар Хайям – Не оплакивай, смертный, вчерашних потерь
- Василий Курочкин – На погребение бедового критика
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
