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:
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- Нина Пикулева – Яна-Несмеяна
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабкор (Лбом пробив безграмотья горы)
- Владимир Британишский – От низменного к неземному
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- Омар Хайям – Небо кушак, что облек изнуренный мой стан
- june_sick_room.html
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
- How Long by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Possibilities by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonet 43 by William Alexander
- Lover’s Gifts LXX: Take Back Your Coins by Rabindranath Tagore
- Imbrium by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Hot and Cold by Roald Dahl
- Владимир Британишский – Дом (Время ведь с годами ведь)
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.