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:
- Yes, It Was The Mountain Echo by William Wordsworth
- Юнна Мориц – Бетани
- Mr. Brain by Russell Edson
- Diving Wreck
- Николай Некрасов – Взирает он на жизнь сурово, строго
- It is a Show by Rixa White
- Italy poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Небылицы в лицах
- O Tan-faced Prairie Boy. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Дорога на фронт
- Владимир Высоцкий – В белье плотной вязки
- Альфред де Мюссе – Намуна
- Sonnet 02
- We embraced and talked about rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Василий Жуковский – Библия
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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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.