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:
- A Tempest in a Teacup poem – A. Van Jordan poems | Poetry Monster
- Duckweed Pond by Wang Wei
- Юнна Мориц – Лето
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Утро
- Song—A Health to them that’s awa by Robert Burns
- Exposure by Seamus Heaney
- Robert Burns: Impromptu Lines To Captain Riddell: On Returning a Newspaper.
- Fidelity by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
- The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Of Old Sat Freedom poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Elegy on the Death of Sir James Hunter Blair by Robert Burns
- A Mesh by Shahida Latif
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка о красной шапочке
- Кондратий Рылеев – Любовь к отчизне
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
- first_light.html
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- drunkenness.html
- do_not_get_angry.html
- dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
- dawned_again.html
- create.html
- conference_swan_beauty.html
- colors_and_sounds.html
- children039s_eyes.html
- athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
- as_with_recitation_and_the_loss_of_a_kuhi.html
- antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
- alexander.html
- acts_of_love.html
- a_single_man.html
- a_poem.html
- a_dialogue.html
- a_city_one_wish.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
