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:
- Khristna And His Flute
- Sonnet Xii
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
- Last Instructions to a Painter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- To a Certain Cantatrice. by Walt Whitman
- On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
- 1914 IV: The Dead by Rupert Brooke
- A Petition poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – В РСФСР 130 миллионов населения (Агитплакаты)
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Языков – Элегия (День ненастный, темный; тучи)
- Олег Григорьев – Пляж давно опустел
- Robert Burns: The Rantin’ Dog, The Daddie O’t:
- Олег Бундур – Если умываться лень
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
