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:
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- Владимир Высоцкий – Схвати судьбу за горло, словно посох
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Crusaders by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сыт я по горло, до подбородка
- To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
- Disingenuousness by Mark R Slaughter
- Вера Звягинцева – Другу-переводчику
- The Hawk and the Babe poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Extinguish Thou My Eyes by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – В метро
- Владимир Луговской – Пила
- Николай Огарев – Расстались мы
- Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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
- 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
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.