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:
- Epigram on Parting with a kind Host in the Highlands by Robert Burns
- When To The Attractions Of The Busy World by William Wordsworth
- Николай Языков – Песни (Мы любим шумные пиры)
- He Reproves The Curlew by William Butler Yeats
- Epigram on Jessy Staig’s recovery by Robert Burns
- Иван Бунин – Беру твою руку и долго смотрю
- Celebrate Spring Today poem with a translation – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Olney Hymn 43: Prayer For Patience by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Чичерин и тралеры отдает и прочее
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи о Фоме
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
- The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Шумики, шумы и шумищи
- Robert Burns: My Girl She’s Airy: Fragment
- Roaming Cloud by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Reason Use It Divine Matters
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- Platonick Love
- On The Death Of Sir Henry Wootton
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
- On The Death Of Mr Crashaw
- Of Wit
- Not Fair
- Life
- Hymn To Light
- Hymn Light
- Epitaph
- Despair
- Death Sir Henry Wootton
- Davideis Sacred Poem Troubles David Excerpt
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Cousel
- Constantias Song
- Constantia039s Song
- Concealment
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
