A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Thought is an unseen net wherein our mind
Is taken and vainly struggles to be free:
Words, that should loose our spirit, do but bind
New fetters on our hoped-for liberty:
And action bears us onward like a stream
Past fabulous shores, scarce seen in our swift course;
Glorious–and yet its headlong currents seem
Backwaters of some nobler purer force.
There are slow curves, more subtle far than thought,
That stoop to carry the grace of a girl’s breast;
And hanging flowers, so exquisitely wrought
In airy metal, that they seem possessed
Of souls; and there are distant hills that lift
The shoulder of a goddess towards the light;
And arrowy trees, sudden and sharp and swift,
Piercing the spirit deeply with delight.
Would I might make these miracles my own!
Like a pure angel, thinking colour and form,
Hardening to rage in a flame of chiselled stone,
Spilling my love like sunlight, golden and warm
On noonday flowers, speaking the song of birds
Among the branches, whispering the fall of rain,
Beyond all thought, past action and past words,
I would live in beauty, free from self and pain.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Британишский – Читая Ремарка
- The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking by the Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Sonnet X
- Николай Языков – Тригорское
- The Garden By The Bridge
- Come by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Lovers by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Amaranth by Vachel Lindsay
- Алексей Ржевский – Портрет
- To A Husband poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Female ghost in the moonlight by Raj Arumugam
- dear moon, you will understand by Raj Arumugam
- From The Cuckoo And The Nightingale by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: Address To Wm. Tytler, Esq., Of Woodhouselee: With an Impression of the Author’s Portrait.
- Eclogue III by Virgil
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
- Italy poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Inspiration poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- In Uncertainty To A Lady poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Doors Of The Temple poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Darkness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Crapulous Impression poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqué poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- By The Fire poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Books And Thoughts poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Anniversaries poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- A Melody By Scarlatti poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- A Little Memory poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- September
- Scenes Of The Mind
- Revelation
- Return From Business
- Private Property
- Points And Lines
- Poem
- Panic
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.