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:
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- Ольга Седакова – Филемон и Бавкида
- Sonnet 48: How careful was I, when I took my way by William Shakespeare
- Signet of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Alternate Destination by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- A Toast To Nations
- Polly In A Porny by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Шляпами панов не забить… (РОСТА №222)
- Гавриил Державин – Задумчивость
- Как тяжело, когда идет война
- Teasing by Pamela Griffiths
- South Africa by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Для Донбасса формируется поезд с подарками (РОСТА №938)
- Celebrity Style Of The Week: Gabriel Akinosho
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
