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:
- Fortune-Hunter, The – Canto 5 by William Somervile
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вот и настал этот час опять
- Иннокентий Анненский – Франсис Жамм. Когда для всех меня не станет меж живыми
- The Reply Of Q. Horatius Flaccus To A Roman “Round-Robin” poem – Alfred Austin
- A Meeting poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Некрасов – Не рыдай так безумно над ним
- Robert Burns: Phillis The Fair:
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- Martha Washington by Sidney Lanier
- Robert Burns: Inscription At Friars’ Carse Hermitage: To the Memory of Robert Riddell.
- The Fifth Ode Of Horace. Lib. I poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – За окном только вьюга, смотри
- A Goddess by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Sonnet CXXII by William Shakespeare
- Those Born In Obscure Times poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
External links
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Poems in English
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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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.