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 Francis Grose the Antiquary by Robert Burns
- Шекспир – Проснись, любовь – Сонет 56
- Валерий Брюсов – И вдруг все станет так понятно
- The Portrait — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Let me draw your face by St Antoine de la Vuadi
- Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog by William Wordsworth
- The Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
- Cuchulan’s Fight With The Sea by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Свадебная
- Василий Тредиаковский – Песенка любовна
- The Lotus by Rabindranath Tagore
- After Parting by Sara Teasdale
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вера Павлова – Завещание
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
