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:
- Epilogue poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: Tho’ Cruel Fate Should Bid Us Part:
- On the Seashore by Rabindranath Tagore
- In the Small Hours by Wole Soyinka
- Владимир Высоцкий – Граждане, ах, сколько ж я не пел
- Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
- The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay
- A Night Thought by William Wordsworth
- In Praise Of Henna by Sarojini Naidu
- Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare
- How to Become an Inspiration
- What Are Big Girls Made Of? by Marge Piercy
- A Poet’s Eightieth Birthday poem – Alfred Austin
- I Have News For You by Tony Hoagland
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
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
- I Shout Love by Milton Acorn
- I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel
- I Just Wanna Make You Mine Girl by Miraj Patel
- I Just Wanna Be Your Number One by Miraj Patel
- I Have A Friend I Can Proudly Say by Miraj Patel
- I Just Wanna Be Your Valentine by Miraj Patel
- I Can Feel The Same by Miraj Patel
- Househunting by Mike Yuan
- Hiking by Mike Yuan
- Growth: for Allen Qing Yuan by Mike Yuan
- Global Warning by Mike Yuan
- Four Corners by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Forever Ya by Miraj Patel
- Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas
- Entering the Body by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Elizabeth by Michael Ondaatje
- East Idioms (1): A Fable by Mike Yuan
- Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel
- Christmas Dance of the Hours by Michael T. Bee
- Change of Climate by Michael S Wilson
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
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.