The Louse-Hunters poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

(From the French of Rimbaud).

When the child’s forehead, full of torments red,

Cries out for sleep and its pale host of dreams,

His two big sisters come unto his bed,

Having long fingers, tipped with silvery gleams.

They set him at a casement, open wide

On seas of flowers that stir in the blue airs,

And through his curls, all wet with dew, they slide

Those terrible searching finger-tips of theirs.

He hears them breathing, softly, fearfully,

Honey-sweet ruminations, slow respired:

Then a sharp hiss breaks time and melody–

Spittle indrawn, old kisses new-desired.

Down through the perfumed silences he hears

Their eyelids fluttering: long fingers thrill,

Probing a lassitude bedimmed with tears,

While the nails crunch at every louse they kill.

He is drunk with Languor–soft accordion-sigh,

Delirious wine of Love in Idleness;

Longings for tears come welling up and die,

As slow or swift he feels their magical caress.

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random 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 

• For What As Easy by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Five Songs – II by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Fish in the Unruffled Lakes by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Eyes Look Into The Well by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Edward Lear by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Deftly, Admiral, Cast Your Fly by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Two Songs for Hedli Anderson by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• The Shield of Achilles by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• The More Loving One by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• September 1, 1939 by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• On the Circuit by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• In Memory of Sigmund Freud by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• If I could tell you by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• For Friends Only by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)
• Death’s Echo by W H Auden by Wystan Hugh Auden (W.H. Auden)

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works