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:
- We Two Boys Together Clinging. by Walt Whitman
- Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Ермолаева – Просила тебя у мертвой и выпросила у мертвой
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий! (РОСТА №735)
- Plato
- Night-Piece by Siegfried Sassoon
- My Mother’s Body by Marge Piercy
- New York at Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Here, Sailor. by Walt Whitman
- Lines Written in Windsor Forest poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet To Chatterton poem – John Keats poems
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сологуб – Словно лепится сурепица
- Farewell (II) by Wang Wei
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
