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:
- Lament Of Mary Queen Of Scots by William Wordsworth
- Stepping Westward by William Wordsworth
- Николай Заболоцкий – Подводный город
- Our Soul’s Gestation
- Ольга Берггольц – Из “Писем с дороги”
- Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
- The Death of Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- On The Disadvantages Of Central Heating poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Blackbird by William Barnes
- Poema II, “Pañuelos de La Alhambra” by Mara Romero Torres
- Ок Мельникова – Птицей
- Владимир Набоков – Какое сделал я дурное дело
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
- Николай Заболоцкий – Генеральская дача
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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
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.