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:
- Drapple-thorned Aphrodite, by Sappho
- Once Upon A Wandering Mind poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- After Schiller by Thomas Hardy
- Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Алексей Толстой – Ушкуйник
- Николай Гумилев – Неоромантическая сказка
- An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron by William Strode
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Могила
- I Strove with None by Walter Savage Landor
- Characteristics Of A Child Three Years Old by William Wordsworth
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вокруг моего дома
- On A Goldfinch, Starved To Death In His Cage by William Cowper
- Ireland With Emily poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алишер Навои – О сердце, столько на земле
- Юлия Жадовская – Я все хочу расслушать
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.