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:
- Dawned Again
- God lay dead in heaven by Stephen Crane
- Robert Burns: Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain:
- On A World Of Imaginary & Freedom Dwell by Nithin Purple
- Sweet Dancer by William Butler Yeats
- Limericks by Robby Charters
- Владимир Маяковский – Проч руки от Китая
- A Figurative Description Of The Procedure Of Divine Love by William Cowper
- Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Decision
- The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Historion poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Юлия Друнина – Есть праздники, что навсегда с тобой
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
- Валерий Брюсов – Испанская песенка
- Валерий Брюсов – Искушение
- Валерий Брюсов – Искатель
- Валерий Брюсов – Инкогнито
- Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез )
- Валерий Брюсов – Il bacio
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- Валерий Брюсов – Идут года. Но с прежней страстью
- Валерий Брюсов – Идеал
- Валерий Брюсов – И вдруг все станет так понятно
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова давние картины
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- Валерий Брюсов – И он взглянул, и ты уснула, и он ушел, и умер день
- Валерий Брюсов – И небо и серое море
- Валерий Брюсов – Грядущие гунны
- Валерий Брюсов – Грустный вечер
- Валерий Брюсов – Гребцы триремы
- Валерий Брюсов – Городу дифирамб
- Валерий Брюсов – Город женщин
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.