A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Day after day,
At spring’s return,
I watch my flowers, how they burn
Their lives away.
The candle crocus
And daffodil gold
Drink fire of the sunshine–
Quickly cold.
And the proud tulip–
How red he glows!–
Is quenched ere summer
Can kindle the rose.
Purple as the innermost
Core of a sinking flame,
Deep in the leaves the violets smoulder
To the dust whence they came.
Day after day
At spring’s return,
I watch my flowers, how they burn
Their lives away,
Day after day …

A few random poems:
- To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday poem – Alexander Pope
- Suttee by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson:
- The Young British Soldier by Rudyard Kipling
- What the People Said by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet 134: So, now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
- Written In A Fit Of Illness. R. S. S. by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
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- Владимир Высоцкий – Очи чёрные: Часть I
- Алексей Толстой – Тебя так любят все
- Don’t Light The Candles by Yahia Al-Samawy
- Nicotine poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Федор Сологуб – Лесная тропа
- Sonnet. The Day Is Gone poem – John Keats poems
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
- Николай Гумилев – Лесной пожар
- Николай Гумилев – Леопарди (Набросок)
- Николай Гумилев – Леонард
- Николай Гумилев – Лаос
- Николай Гумилев – Куранты любви
- Николай Гумилев – Крыса
- Николай Гумилев – Крест
- Николай Гумилев – Корабль
- Николай Гумилев – Командиру 5-го Александровского полка
- Николай Гумилев – Колокол
- Николай Гумилев – Когда я был влюблен
- Николай Гумилев – Когда спокойно так и равнодушно мы
- Николай Гумилев – Ключ в лесу
- Николай Гумилев – Кенгуру
- Николай Гумилев – Кармен худа, коричневатый
- Николай Гумилев – Капитаны
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона вторая
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Лучшая музыка в мире)
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Бывает в жизни человека)
- Николай Гумилев – Какою музыкой мой слух взволнован
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.