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 Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Coming Through The Rye by Robert Burns
- Mora Jobana (My Youth) poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- Robert Burns: The Winter It Is Past:
- Наум Коржавин – Иль впрямь я разлюбил свою страну?
- Extract From The Conclusion Of A Poem Composed In Anticipation Of Leaving School by William Wordsworth
- Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Fountain by William Wordsworth
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дафнис и Алцимадура
- Untitled IX by Yunus Emre
- Федор Сологуб – Снежное поле бесшумно
- The Cleaving by Samuel Hazo
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия – страна земледельческая… (РОСТА №874)
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
