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:
- I Shout Love by Milton Acorn
- Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry by Robert Burns
- For Sidney Bechet by Philip Larkin
- Яков Полонский – А. Н. Майкову (ответ на стихи его: Полонский! Суждено опять судьбою злою)
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Василий Тредиаковский – Ну, так уже я не стал быть вашим отныне
- Николай Огарев – Свисти ты, о ветер, с бессонною силой
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- Николай Заболоцкий – Испытание воли
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Яков Полонский – Памяти С. Я. Надсона
- Игорь Северянин – Памяти В. Башкина
- Sonnet 109: O, never say that I was false of heart by William Shakespeare
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
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
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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.