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:
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- Федор Сологуб – Вы не умеете целовать мою землю
- Crazy Jane On God by William Butler Yeats
- In the Valley of Cauteretz poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- In the Philippines, August Is a Celebration of Buwan Ng Wika
- How Do You Know when Someone is in Love with You?
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- The Ballad Of Father O’Hart by William Butler Yeats
- Arrival by William Carlos Williams
- Владимир Степанов – Наша Армия
- The Boy by Vinko Kalinić
- A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
- Stanzas by William Wordsworth
- Шекспир – Сонет 50
- When Day Is Done 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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
