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:
- To A Clergyman On The Death Of His Lady by Phillis Wheatley
- The Gardener LXIX: I Hunt for the Golden Stag by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: I Dream’d I Lay:
- Валерий Брюсов – Её колени
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- A Mother’s Lament for her Son’s Death by Robert Burns
- A Writer’s Pen by Sahiti Siddharth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Когда бы
- Василий Казин – На могиле матери
- Николай Языков – Две картины
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно революцию празднуют… (РОСТА №399)
- “My soul is sunk in all–suffusing shame” poem – Alfred Austin
- The Lime-tree Bower my Prison by Samuel Coleridge
- Владимир Луговской – Звезда (Я знаю ты любишь меня)
- Slag by Mark Base
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)
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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
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.