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 Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отторженность
- The Ineffectual Dives by Shahida Latif
- Camelot & The Greek Widow by Graham Rowlands
- Robert Burns: Love In The Guise Of Friendship:
- “Take not the Gods to task, for they are wise” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
- “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
- The Conjugation of the Paramecium by Muriel Rukeyser
- Владимир Маяковский – Да или нет
- To The King’s Most Excellent Majesty by Phillis Wheatley
- William Henry Davies – William Henry Davies
- The Day Is Gone, And All Its Sweets Are Gone poem – John Keats poems
- Lord when the wise men came from farr by Sidney Godolphin
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
- The Campera, the Foreigner y el Novio by Marjorie Kanter
- The Boy by Marilyn Hacker
- The Aegean by Maria Luisa Spaziani
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- The Copper Beech by Marie Howe
- Synchronicity by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Subjective Genocide by Marie Starr
- Subject to Change by Marilyn L. Taylor
- Spenser’s Ireland by Marianne Moore
- Song by Margaret Widdemer
- Silence by Marianne Moore
- Scars on Paper by Marilyn Hacker
- Rosemary by Marianne Moore
- Release by Marie Starr
- Reading Runes by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
- Poetry by Marianne Moore
- Peter by Marianne Moore
- Passion by Sera Jacob
- Paragraphs from a Day-Book by Marilyn Hacker
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
