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:
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Любовь, любовь! веселым днем)
- A Farewell to False Love by Sir Walter Raleigh
- An Address to the Rev. George Gilfillan by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сивка-Бурка
- Sonet 52 by William Alexander
- Владимир Костров – Душа, не кайся и не майся
- Владимир Вишневский – Долго же мы друг друга откладывали
- Ballad of the Old Cypress by Tu Fu
- Walking The Marshland by Stephen Dunn
- Владимир Британишский – Единственный шаман, которого я видел
- symphony_in_red.html
- Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood by William Cullen Bryant
- THE WAX PALACE by Satish Verma
- Ольга Берггольц – Осень (Мне осень озёрного края)
- Farewell to Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Pavilion by Wang Wei
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:
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.