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:
- Василий Курочкин – Дама приятная во всех отношениях
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- Владимир Луговской – Обращение
- Night Ray by Paul Celan
- The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
- To his Majestie by William Alexander
- The Death Of A Fly by Russell Edson
- Song Of The Devoted Slave
- Mulholland’s Contract by Rudyard Kipling
- Ольга Ермолаева – Ты где летал, мой падающий с Фанских гор
- Hypatia by Stanley Wilkin
- Зинаида Александрова – Ветер на речке
- Зинаида Александрова – Топотушки
- Владимир Степанов – Акробат (Буква А)
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.