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:
- Вергилий – Лидия
- Федор Тютчев – Как он любил родные ели
- A Silence poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- All Hail To The Czar! poem – Alfred Austin
- Daphnis And Chloe poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Новелла Матвеева – Закон песен
- Sonnet CVII: Not Mine Own Fears, Nor the Prophetic Soul by William Shakespeare
- A Captive Throstle poem – Alfred Austin
- Василий Тредиаковский – Ну, так уже я не стал быть вашим отныне
- Prologue, spoken by Mr. Woods at Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- Sounds of your love poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
- Николай Языков – В. М. Княжевичу (Простите мне простое «ты»)
- Sleepless by Sara Teasdale
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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.