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:
- 1954 by Sharon Olds
- Dust by Sara Teasdale
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- The Change
- The Conjugation of the Paramecium by Muriel Rukeyser
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- Robert Burns: Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell: On Returning a Newspaper.
- Niagara by Vachel Lindsay
- Виктор Колесников – Вороний мат во все концы
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio poem – John Keats poems
- XVI: Some Verses: Of Conquerouris by William Alexander
- No LOVE by venkatesh.valusa
- Death In Exile by Satish Verma
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
