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:
- Михаил Лермонтов – Зови надежду сновиденьем
- In May by William Henry Davies
- Kiss by Ruth Padel
- Владимир Орлов – Как Таппи научился лаять
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- I Have Loved Hours At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America by Phillis Wheatley
- Blank by Nizar Sartawi
- To The Honourable T. H. Esq; On the Death Of His Daughter by Phillis Wheatley
- Couplet 11 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- O Singer in Brown by Mary Gilmore
- A Schoolyard Shame by Ryan Isaacson
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Н. Ф. Щербине
- He Tells Of A Valley Full Of Lovers by William Butler Yeats
- Remain! by Walter Savage Landor
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
