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:
- To a friend by Vinko Kalinić
- Ballade Of The Dead Cities poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я всё чаще думаю о судьях
- A Lover poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Or from that Sea of Time. by Walt Whitman
- Song. Murdering Beauty by Thomas Carew
- Suicide In The Trenches by Siegfried Sassoon
- Наум Коржавин – От дурачеств, от ума ли
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XLV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems | Poetry Monster
- Вера Полозкова – Или, к примеру, стоял какой-нибудь
- Epistle To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- Валерий Брюсов – Фаэтон
- to_his_coy_mistress.html
- Go Get The Goodly Squab by Sylvia Plath
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.