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:
- Blackmwore Maidens by William Barnes
- Алексей Толстой – Вновь растворилась дверь
- Out of Your Love by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- An Astrologer’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Жан де Лафонтен – Врачи
- Николай Карамзин – К бедному поэту
- Lines to John M’Murdo of Drumlanrig by Robert Burns
- Reply to the Threat of a Censorious Critic by Robert Burns
- Unlyric Love Song
- Orlando Furioso Canto 5 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Владимир Маяковский – Слушай, шахтер!.. (РОСТА №843)
- Олег Бундур – В саду
- From ‘Samson Agonistes’ i poem – John Milton poems
- The Widow at Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.