A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Sitting on the top of the ‘bus,
I bite my pipe and look at the sky.
Over my shoulder the smoke streams out
And my life with it.
“Conservation of energy,” you say.
But I burn, I tell you, I burn;
And the smoke of me streams out
In a vanishing skein of grey.
Crash and bump … my poor bruised body!
I am a harp of twittering strings,
An elegant instrument, but infinitely second-hand,
And if I have not got phthisis it is only an accident.
Droll phenomena!
A few random poems:
- On a Certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Василий Жуковский – Цветок
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночное гулянье
- The Wish poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Про пешеходов и разинь, вонзивших глазки небу в синь
- Владимир Высоцкий – Знать бы все до конца бы и сразу б
- The Light By The Barn by William Stafford
- Dockery And Son by Philip Larkin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Давайте я спою вам в подражанье радиолам
- Robert Burns: The Gowden Locks Of Anna:
- I Remember by Stevie Smith
- Ametas And Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Омар Хайям – Мы источник веселья, и скорби рудник
- Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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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.