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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Рассказ Хренова о Кузнецкстрое и о людях Кузнецка
- Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still by William Shakespeare
- Lover’s Gifts XLII: Are You a Mere Picture by Rabindranath Tagore
- Afraid of rabbit HOLE by Neelam Sinha
- Алексей Жемчужников – Отголосок девятой симфонии Бетховена
- Владимир Маяковский – Думай об армии (РОСТА №873)
- Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Leave This by Rabindranath Tagore
- My Love’s Guardian Angel by William Barnes
- Song—Auld Rob Morris by Robert Burns
- A turn of events by Ross D Tyler
- Robert Burns: My Eppie Macnab:
- Витя, Витенка, Витюша
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- Алишер Навои – Цветком, что счастье нам несет
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
- Awed by her splendor by Sappho
- To Aphrodite by Sappho
- And their feet move by Sappho
- Anactoria by Sappho
- An Epithalamium by Sappho
- Although they are by Sappho
- In Adoration by Sappho
- A Lament For Adonis by Sappho
- A Hymn To Venus by Sappho
- Youth And The Pilgrim by Sara Teasdale
- Triolets by Sara Teasdale
- To L. R. E. by Sara Teasdale
- To A Picture Of Eleanor Duse by Sara Teasdale
- To A Castillan Song by Sara Teasdale
- Since There Is No Escape by Sara Teasdale
- The Wine by Sara Teasdale
- The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- The Wind In The Hemlock by Sara Teasdale
- The Wayfarer by Sara Teasdale
- The Wanderer by Sara Teasdale
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.