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:
- Youths Can Raise Funds, Fight Drug Abuse Through Education
- Анатолий Жигулин – Невыразимы сладкой тишью
- Зинаида Александрова – Мы оделись раньше всех
- Николай Гумилев – Зачарованный викинг, я шел по земле
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none by William Shakespeare
- The Proud Farmer by Vachel Lindsay
- Further Instructions poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Welcome A.O.H. Men by Michael McGovern
- Robert Burns: Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation:
- Валерий Брюсов – Город женщин
- The Hidden Law by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: Sketch In Verse: Inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox.
- Владимир Маяковский – Нынче бар в России нет… (Главполитпросвет №37)
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
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 Poor House by Sara Teasdale
- The Old Maid by Sara Teasdale
- The Nights Remember by Sara Teasdale
- The New Moon by Sara Teasdale
- The Net by Sara Teasdale
- The Mother Of A Poet by Sara Teasdale
- The Metropolitan Tower by Sara Teasdale
- The Meeting by Sara Teasdale
- The Love That Goes A-Begging by Sara Teasdale
- The Look by Sara Teasdale
- The Long Hill by Sara Teasdale
- The Lights Of New York by Sara Teasdale
- The Lighted Window by Sara Teasdale
- The Lamp by Sara Teasdale
- The Kiss by Sara Teasdale
- The Kind Moon by Sara Teasdale
- The Inn Of Earth by Sara Teasdale
- The India Wharf by Sara Teasdale
- The House Of Dreams by Sara Teasdale
- The Heart’s House by Sara Teasdale
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