A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
To Kathleen-
Nor I can give, nor you can take; endures
The simple truth of me that is yours.
Is not the music mingled with the form
When all the heavens break in blind black storm?
Are we not veiled as Gods, and cruel as they,
Smiting our brilliance on the shuddering clay?
Silence and darkness cover us, confirm
Our splendour to its unappointed term:
For all the men homunculi that dance
Around us shudder at our brilliance.
These puppets perish in the good grand glare,
Our sworded sunlight in the boundless air !
These bats need cloisters; these tame birds a cage;
How should they know the Masters of the Age?
Or understand when the archangels cry
Adoring us Ellên kat’ asterh ei?
A few random poems:
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ты нива моя, нивушка
- That Summer by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- Motel Seedy by Thomas Lux
- Валерий Брюсов – Германия (отрывки)
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- Patience poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On A Miser, 3 (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu poem – Alexander Pope
- Владимир Высоцкий – Набросок песни к к/ф “Вооружён и очень опасен”
- The River by Sara Teasdale
- Олег Григорьев – Прометей
- Dedication To Leigh Hunt, Esq. poem – John Keats poems
- Cinderella by Roald Dahl
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
