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:
- Иван Мятлев – Бывало
- Design by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 153: Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep by William Shakespeare
- Sonet 56 by William Alexander
- Done is a battle by William Dunbar
- Владимир Маяковский – Помощь не придет на такой вой… (Главполитпросвет №14)
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne
- Epitaph for Mr. William Michie, Schoolmaster by Robert Burns
- On A Political Prisoner by William Butler Yeats
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare
- Алишер Навои – На лице горит созвездье у красавицы моей
- Round by Weldon Kees
- Ольга Ермолаева – Псевдоготика для русских романтических сердец
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.