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:
- Степан Щипачев – Шар земной
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin
- For To Admire by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Частушки
- My Miracle Valentine by Tirtha Raj Baral (Sanu Punatare)
- Альфред де Мюссе – Песнь барберины
- Аnything can happen
- Sonnet 133: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan by William Shakespeare
- Георгий Иванов – Теперь, когда быстрее лавы
- Song. Written On A Blank Page In Beaumont And Fletcher’s Works poem – John Keats poems
- The Rose Of The World by William Butler Yeats
- Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes
- September by Ted Hughes
- I Rose Up at the Dawn of Day by William Blake
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.