A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Evenings in trains,
When the little black twittering ghosts
Along the brims of cuttings,
Against the luminous sky,
Interrupt with their hurrying rumour every thought
Save that one is young and setting,
Headlong westering,
And there is no recapture.
A few random poems:
- Song—A Bottle and Friend by Robert Burns
- On the Idle Hill of Summer poem – A. E. Housman
- A Song Of The Future. by Sidney Lanier
- Михаил Кузмин – В саду
- The Battle of the Baltic by Thomas Campbell
- There is a Way by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare
- On Virtue by Phillis Wheatley
- Ольга Берггольц – Анна Ахматова в 1941 году в Ленинграде
- Flight by Rupert Brooke
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Что ж делать
- Степан Щипачев – Шар земной
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот какое обещание молодой солдат дает… (Главполитпросвет №376)
- София Парнок – Рондель
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
- Sonnet I
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Ode In Memory Of The American Volunteers Fallen For France
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
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.