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:
- Winter Promises by Marge Piercy
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нет рядом никого, как ни дыши
- Elegy I. To Charles Deodati (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Tiger Drinking at Forest Pool by Ruth Padel
- Snail Poem by Peter Orlovsky
- The Winners by Rudyard Kipling
- Amity’s Death by SAAJIDA GORA
- Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- I Keep Six Honest… by Rudyard Kipling
- Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos Williams
- To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Луговской – Пила
- A King’s Soliloquy [On the Night of His Funeral] by Thomas Hardy
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
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
- For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back by Marilyn Hacker
- Exiles by Marilyn Hacker
- Desesperanto by Marilyn Hacker
- Dear Alzheimer’s by Maria Knox
- Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
- Children of My Own by Marie Starr
- Belly Good by Marge Piercy
- Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore
- Barbie Doll by Marge Piercy
- Attack of the Squash People by Marge Piercy
- Always Unsuitable by Marge Piercy
- about emptiness… by Marina Cecilia Kohon
- A Work Of Artifice by Marge Piercy
- A Grave by Marianne Moore
- Woman by Manmohan Acharya
- Without exile, who am I? by Mahmoud Darwish
- Winter’s End by Mac McGovern
- Wind by Mac McGovern
- What these girl means to me by Maphoto selokela
- Two Stranger Birds in Our Feathers by Mahmoud Darwish
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.