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:
- A Cure At Porlock poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- In a Spring Grove by William Allingham
- Dialogue Song—Philly and Willy by Robert Burns
- Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
- After Hearing a Waltz poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- To… (Kern) poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- said, unsaid by tulip
- The Moon And The Yew Tree by Sylvia Plath
- Новелла Матвеева – Величие?
- Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come by William Shakespeare
- To an Intra-mural Rat by Marianne Moore
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
