A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
A petal drifted loose
From a great magnolia bloom,
Your face hung in the gloom,
Floating, white and close.
We seemed alone: but another
Bent o’er you with lips of flame,
Unknown, without a name,
Hated, and yet my brother.
Your one short moan of pain
Was an exorcising spell:
The devil flew back to hell;
We were alone again.
A few random poems:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На улице
- Sonnet 71: No longer mourn for me when I am dead by William Shakespeare
- The Window
- In the spring twilight by Sappho
- Василий Жуковский – К ней
- Dedication by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- Ione, Dead the Long Year poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Джон Китс – Чаттертону
- The Victory by Shahida Latif
- At the Lake Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Shallow Valley by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Giving Myself Up by Mark Strand
- Владимир Британишский – Письмо
- Владимир Набоков – Шахматный конь
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
- Limbo Under the Westway poem – André Rostant poems
- A Rainy Night poem – André Rostant poems
- “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles
- 決定
- Decision
- 我的妻子。 安德烈·布勒東一首關於自由戀愛的詩
- Less Time poem – Andre Breton poems
- Freedom of Love poem | L’Union Libre (Ma Femme) – Andre Breton poems
- Le Verbe Etre poem – Andre Breton poems
- Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems
- Always for the first time
- I have a dream
- Putin, Our Savior and Dear Friend
- Shame
- A Poem about Lemonade
- About Wedding Dress
- Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: a shepherd poet
- What Shall I Do For the Land that Bred Me poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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.