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:
- The Gardener XXVI: What Comes From Your Willing Hands by Rabindranath Tagore
- What a Glow Everywhere I see – Aaj Rung Hai poem – with a translation Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
- Джон Мильтон – Псалом 1
- The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
- The Grammar Lesson by Steve Kowit
- Delilah by Rudyard Kipling
- Sitting atop the mountain hill by Swami Aaron Thomas
- A Pastiche For Eve by Weldon Kees
- Омар Хайям – Это время любви, словно тёплая осень
- Николай Гербель – Простор
- A Rhyme About an Electrical Advertising Sign by Vachel Lindsay
- With his venom by Sappho
- The New Church Organ by Will McKendree Carleton
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.