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:
- PRESCIENCE by Satish Verma
- A Tale of Starvation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Аля Кудряшева – Невозможно держать в памяти все человечество
- Robert Burns: The Lovely Lass O’ Inverness:
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Аля Кудряшева – Ходят катера по Малой Невке
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- When I read the Book. by Walt Whitman
- Василий Жуковский – Гаральд
- Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
- Валерий Брюсов – К финскому народу
- The Dawn
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Соме le onde
- The Old Stone Cross by William Butler Yeats
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.