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:
- Robert Burns: The Winter It Is Past:
- A Virginal poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Faery Song by William Butler Yeats
- After Rain by P. K. Page
- An Excelente Balade of Charitie: As Wroten bie the Gode Pri by Thomas Chatterton
- Resignation poem – Alfred Austin
- The Gardener LXXIX: I Often Wonder by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Яков Полонский – Орел и голубка
- Atavism
- Алексей Жемчужников – Примирение
- A Cure At Porlock poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rosalie by Washington Allston
- Boat Song—Hey, Ca’ Thro’ by Robert Burns
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.