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:
- Юлия Друнина – Хорошо молодое лицо
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вова испугался
- Alone in Crowds to Wander On by Thomas Moore
- Алексей Жемчужников – Весна
- On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
- Matter For Gratitude poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- O You Who’ve gone on Pilgrimage by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Демьян Бедный – Весенний благостный покой
- Anecdote Of Canna by Wallace Stevens
- Song—A Lass wi’ a Tocher by Robert Burns
- Rapture by Neil Outar
- Гавриил Державин – Ключ
- History by Robert Lowell
- Robert Burns: Kellyburn Braes:
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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
