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.
A few random poems:
- Ольга Седакова – Старый поэт (Постскриптум)
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Алексей Толстой – Темнота и туман застилают мне путь
- Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- A Te Deum poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Себе, любимому, посвящает эти строки автор
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
- Иида Дакоцу – Сквозь зимнюю мглу
- Владимир Британишский – На Марсовом поле
- Oh Masters
- Only If I Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- Watching the Bird Watcher by Richard Schiffman
- Funny Networking Poem and Do’s and Don’ts
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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
- Анатолий Жигулин – Коломенское
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
- Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
- Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
- Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
- Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
- Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
- Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
- Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
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.