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:
- On the Same poem – John Milton poems
- Epitaphs Translated From Chiabrera by William Wordsworth
- Ode, Sacred to the Memory of Mrs. Oswald of Auchencruive by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – Край Земли
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Радуга
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Quest XII (Vocation) by W H Auden
- Владимир Луговской – Краски
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- Iva’s Pantoum by Marilyn Hacker
- Федор Сологуб – Собака седого короля
- Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- A Humble Heroine by William Topaz McGonagall
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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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.