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:
- Summon Me by Walid Saba
- I have outlived my own desires by Alexander Pushkin (Pouchkine)
- A Prayer under the Pressure of Violent Anguish by Robert Burns
- The Death of Knowledge by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Robert Burns: My Collier Laddie:
- The Rose And The Bee by Sara Teasdale
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- Before an Examination by Stephen Vincent Benet
- An Adventure in the Life of King James V of Scotland by William Topaz McGonagall
- Suppressed Stanzas of “The Vision” by Robert Burns
- The Remains by Mark Strand
- Владимир Маяковский – Дурацкий сон (РОСТА №234)
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- Ford o’ Kabul River by Rudyard Kipling
- Further Instructions poem – Ezra Pound poems
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
- Ок Мельникова – All I want, all I need
- Ок Мельникова – 3. 45 a. m
- Огюст Барбье – Жертвы
- Огюст Барбье – Зеленая Дева
- Огюст Барбье – Хвала Хафизу
- Огюст Барбье – Видимость
- Огюст Барбье – Васильки
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
- Огюст Барбье – Собачий пир
- Огюст Барбье – Шекспир
- Огюст Барбье – Сегодня я в пути
- Огюст Барбье – Роберт Эммет
- Огюст Барбье – Рафаэль
- Огюст Барбье – Прогресс
- Огюст Барбье – Покинутый
- Огюст Барбье – Отъезд
- Огюст Барбье – Ни кротостью, ни негой ясной
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- Огюст Барбье – Мазаччио
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
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
