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:
- Psalm 05 poem – John Milton poems
- Love Sonnet XXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ночь
- Before You Returned by Shahida Latif
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Илья Эренбург – Я не трубач, труба
- Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
- Johnny Rich by Will McKendree Carleton
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
- My Partner in Crime by Rennu Ayyar
- Auntie’s Skirts by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Степанов – Потемнели ветви
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
- Untitled XIX by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XIV by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XIII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled XI by Yunus Emre
- Untitled X by Yunus Emre
- Untitled VIII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled VII by Yunus Emre
- Untitled V by Yunus Emre
- Untitled IX by Yunus Emre
- Untitled IV by Yunus Emre
- Untitled III by Yunus Emre
- Untitled II by Yunus Emre
- Untitled I by Yunus Emre
- Love Compared To A Game Of Tables by William Strode
- Keepe On Your Maske (Version for his Mistress) by William Strode
- Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode
- Justification by William Strode
- Jacke-On-Both-Sides by William Strode
- William Strode – William Strode
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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.