A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
The eyes of the portraits on the wall
Look at me, follow me,
Stare incessantly:
I take it their glance means nothing at all?
–Clearly, oh clearly! Nothing at all …
Out in the gardens by the lake
The sleeping peacocks suddenly wake;
Out in the gardens, moonlit and forlorn,
Each of them sounds his mournful horn:
Shrill peals that waver and crack and break.
What can have made the peacocks wake?
A few random poems:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не отдавайте в физики детей
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот по борьбе с голодом отчет (Главполитпросвет №320)
- Collage by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- October by William Cullen Bryant
- Before the Altar poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Adam Armour’s Prayer:
- Спиридон Дрожжин – В деревне
- Николай Языков – Песня (Всему человечеству)
- Robert Burns: Epigram To Miss Ainslie In Church: Who was looking up the text during sermon.
- He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead by William Butler Yeats
- Валерий Брюсов – Глупое сердце, о чем же печалиться
- Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse by William Shakespeare
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- Владимир Маяковский – Типографы книги делают… (РОСТА №241)
- Эмиль Верхарн – Я радость бытия принес тебе в подарок
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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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.