A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Out of the night forth flamed a star -mine own!
Now seventy light-years nearer as I urge
Constant my heart through the abyss unknown,
Its glory my sole guide while space surge
About me. Seventy light-yaers! As I near
That gate of light that men call death, its cold
Pale gleam begins to pulse, a throbbing sphere,
Systole and diastole of eager gold,
New life immortal, wartmth of passion bleed
Till night’s black velvet burn to crimson. Hark!
It is thy voice, Thy word, the secret seed
Of rapture that admonishes the dark.
Swift! By necessity most righteous drawn,
Hermes, authentic augur of the dawn!
A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: Address To The Toothache:
- Lonely Nights by Walter William Safar
- Николай Заболоцкий – Рубрук в Монголии
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о двух красивых автомобилях
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
- Анатолий Жигулин – Москва
- A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) poem – John Keats poems
- Epitaph on William Hood, Senior by Robert Burns
- While Summer Suns O’er the Gay Prospect Play’d by Thomas Warton
- A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies
- Nothing Stays Put poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Olney Hymn 48: Joy And Peace In Believing by William Cowper
- On The Lord Gen. Fairfax At The Seige Of Colchester poem – John Milton poems
- Told by Philip Levine
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй, товарищи! От сбора продналога… (Главполитпросвет №284)
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
