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:
- Orlando Furioso Canto 12 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Валерий Брюсов – К.А. Коровину (Душа твоя, быть может, ослепительней)
- The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- A Child’s Grace by Robert Herrick
- “Let the nymph still avoid and be deaf to the swain” by Tobias Smollett
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Tis Time, I Think, By Wenlock Town poem – A. E. Housman
- On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems
- The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Salvage poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
- After the Battle by Thomas Moore
- In The Early Pearly Morning
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
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.