A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Instants in the quiet, small sharp stars,
Pierce my spirit with a thrust whose speed
Baffles even the grasp of time.
Oh that I might reflect them
As swiftly, as keenly as they shine.
But I am a pool of waters, summer-still,
And the stars are mirrored across me;
Those stabbing points of the sky
Turned to a thread of shaken silver,
A long fine thread.
A few random poems:
- Вера Павлова – Учась любовной науке
- Untitled VII by Yunus Emre
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- Наум Коржавин – Кое-кому
- Николай Языков – Д. Н. Свербееву (Во имя Руси, милый брат)
- This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. by Walt Whitman
- John Barleycorn: A Ballad by Robert Burns
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- A Ghost in the Shell by Talha Jafri
- Sonnet XVI. To Kosciusko poem – John Keats poems
- Ape by Russell Edson
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
- A Different September by Steve Sant
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.