A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Her eyes of bright unwinking glaze
All imperturbable do not
Even make pretences to regard
The justing absence of her stays,
Where many a Tyrian gallipot
Excites desire with spilth of nard.
The bistred rims above the fard
Of cheeks as red as bergamot
Attest that no shamefaced delays
Will clog fulfilment, nor retard
Full payment of the Cyprian’s praise
Down to the last remorseful jot.
Hail priestess of we know not what
Strange cult of Mycenean days!
A few random poems:
- Николай Карамзин – Impromptu графине Р, которой в одной святошной игре досталось быть королевою
- Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Sparrow Club by William Barnes
- Lover’s Gifts XXVIII: I Dreamt by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Grammarian’s Funeral by Robert Browning
- Sonnet To Chatterton poem – John Keats poems
- English Poetry. Isaac Watts. Hymn 2. Исаак Уоттс.
- Юлия Друнина – Я, признаться, сберечь не сумела шинели
- Air Of Diabelli’s by Robert Louis Stevenson
- good bye, my sweet angel by Raj Arumugam
- A March Minstrel poem – Alfred Austin
- Louisa: After Accompanying Her On A Mountain Excursion by William Wordsworth
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Как Лера чудо искала
- Николай Языков – А. М. Языкову (Теперь, когда пророчественный дар)
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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

Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.