A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
There never was a face as fair as yours,
A heart as true, a love as pure and keen.
These things endure, if anything endures.
But, in this jungle, what high heaven immures
Us in its silence, the supreme serene
Crowning the dagoba, what destined die
Rings on the table, what resistless dart
Strike me I love you; can you satisfy
The hunger of my heart!
Nay; not in love, or faith, or hope is hidden
The drug that heals my life; I know too well
How all things lawful, and all things forbidden
Alike disclose no pearl upon the midden,
Offer no key to unlock the gate of Hell.
There is no escape from the eternal round,
No hope in love, or victory, or art.
There is no plumb-line long enough to sound
The abysses of my heart!
There no dawn breaks; no sunlight penetrates
Its blackness; no moon shines, nor any star.
For its own horror of itself creates
Malignant fate from all benignant fates,
Of its own spite drives its own angel afar.
Nay; this is the great import of the curse
That the whole world is sick, and not a part.
Conterminous with its own universe
the horror of my heart!
ANANDA VIJJA.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Уймется Антанта… (РОСТА №571)
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Man In Black by Sylvia Plath
- Why Do All Good Things Come To An End? by Michael Yuan
- Robert Burns: Does Haughty Gaul Invasion Threat?:
- Sonnet # 2 by Luis A. Estable
- Chapter Headings by Rudyard Kipling
- Addressed To Miss Macartney, Afterwards Mrs. Greville, On Reading The Prayer For Indifference by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Wilt Thou Be My Dearie?:
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- The Leather Suitcase by Tom Berman
- Олег Бундур – Папа собирается на рыбалку
- In a Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost
- Ballade Of The Southern Cross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson 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
- History by Robert Lowell
- Dolphin by Robert Lowell
- Now That You’re Gone by Roberto Cocina
- My World Destroyed by Roberto Cocina
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- My Beach by Robert Saltzman
- Mortal Words by Robert McNamara
- Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
- Man And Wife by Robert Lowell
- Identification In Belfast by Robert Lowell
- Homecoming by Robert Lowell
- Home After Three Months Away by Robert Lowell
- High School Crush by Roberto Cocina
- Greengrocer by Robert McNamara
- For the Union Dead by Robert Lowell
- Fake Identity by Roberto Cocina
- Epilogue by Robert Lowell
- Don’t Disappear by Roberto Cocina
- Crossroads by Roger Hayes
- Artistic Soul Retold by Roberto Cocina
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
