A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
I am getting on well with this anecdote,
When suddenly I recall
The many times I have told it of old,
And all the worked-up phrases, and the dying fall
Of voice, well timed in the crisis, the note
Of mock-heroic ingeniously struck–
The whole thing sticks in my throat,
And my face all tingles and pricks with shame
For myself and my hearers.
These are the social pleasures, my God!
But I finish the story triumphantly all the same.
A few random poems:
- Алексей Толстой – Прогулка с подругой жизни
- Нина Воронель – Московский день
- Reconciliation by William Butler Yeats
- The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Savour Your Life by Ronald G. Auguste
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
- Need by Robert Lloyd Jaffe
- Гавриил Державин – Амур и Психея
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- The Dying of America and How to Save Her
- Chase, The – Book 1 by William Somervile
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Недоверчивость
- Олег Бундур – Орлан-белохвост
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.
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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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.