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:
- Sonnet 129: Th’ expense of spirit in a waste of shame by William Shakespeare
- Myself
- Наум Коржавин – Наверно, я не так на свете жил
- Николай Рубцов – Хороший улов
- Владимир Гиляровский – Владимирка – большая дорога
- An Old Doll
- Disdain Returned by Thomas Carew
- Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
- A Moments Indulgence by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Британишский – Глухарь
- Song of the Redwood-Tree. by Walt Whitman
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Черное озеро
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поняла, ты не хотел мне зла
- Стефан Малларме – Записка Уистлеру
- Olney Hymn 34: The Waiting Soul by William Cowper
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
- Sweetheart by M. T. Metutera
- Sweet Fire by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Summer by Luther Seahand
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 8 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 7 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 6 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 21 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 2 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 19 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 18 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 17 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 15 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 14 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 12 by Luis A. Estale
- Sonnet # 11 by Luis A. Estable
- Sonnet # 10 by Luis A. Estable
- So Soon Done! by Luis Estable
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.