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:
- What Best I See In Thee. by Walt Whitman
- Hand Dark
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- The Dead by Sylvia Plath
- The Baptistry
- Лебедев-Кумач – Священная война: стих “Вставай, страна огромная”, текст песни на Poetry Monster
- “`If you were mine, if you were mine” poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Некрасов – Возвращение
- Ad Martialem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Teachers Day special
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- Николай Языков – В. А. Елагину (Светло блестит на глади неба ясной)
- Black Cat by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Retake, Union Square poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Казимир Лисовский – Река Енисей
- Казалось, осталось недолго
- Катя Пиксаева – Давай поговорим о доброте
- Картошка
- Кастрюль и сковородок музыкант
- Карл Сэндберг – Три слова
- Карл Сэндберг – Анекдот о цикуте для двух афинян
- Карл Сэндберг – Джаз-фантазия
- Карл Сэндберг – Молитва стали
- Карина, ты моя любимая
- Кариночка, любимая ты наша
- Карие глазки, длинные ноги
- Карина, моей души ты яркий свет
- Какой чудесный, маленький комочек
- Какой ты сегодня взволнованный
- Камышева Ю. – На далёком полюсе, где метёт пурга
- Какое это счастье – Материнство
- Какое имя чудное Валерия
- Какие яблоки в саду
- Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
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.