A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
While I have been fumbling over books
And thinking about God and the Devil and all,
Other young men have been battling with the days
And others have been kissing the beautiful women.
They have brazen faces like battering-rams.
But I who think about books and such–
I crumble to impotent dust before the struggling,
And the women palsy me with fear.
But when it comes to fumbling over books
And thinking about God and the Devil and all,
Why, there I am.
But perhaps the battering-rams are in the right of it,
Perhaps, perhaps … God knows.
A few random poems:
- Above the Battle’s Front by Vachel Lindsay
- Fill For Me A Brimming Bowl poem – John Keats poems
- Николай Гумилев – Злобный гений, царь сомнений
- C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше буржуи о производстве думали… (РОСТА №792)
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Благодарю Вас за цветы
- Владимир Высоцкий – Моя клятва (Первый стих)
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Цветок
- Николай Гербель – Ура, объявлена война
- Олег Бундур – Дрова
- Scots, Wha Hae Wi’ Wallace Bled by Robert Burns
- Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
- The Woman Of His Dreams by Talha Jafri
- The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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.