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:
- An Aquarium poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Ballad (Thesis for a Doctor’s Degree) poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- The Great War by Vernon Scannell
- Mora Jobana (My Youth) poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Бундур – Папа и родительское собрание
- Wish by W. S. Merwin
- Factory Windows are Always Broken by Vachel Lindsay
- An Invocation poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Николай Глазков – Почему я отказался от самолёта
- Николай Карамзин – Соловей, галки и вороны
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- Николай Заболоцкий – Сказка о кривом человечке
- Валерий Брюсов – Дворец любви
- Ballade Of The Summer Term poem – Andrew Lang poems
- So You Say by Mark Strand
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.