A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
[Dedicated to Raymond Radclyffe]
I am that hawk of gold
Proud in adamantine poise
On the pillars of torqoise,
See,beyond the starry fold,
Where a darkling orb is rolled.
There, beneath a grove of yew,
Plays a babe. Should I despise
Such a foam of gold, and eyes
Burning beryline, so blue
That the sun seems peeping through?
Did I swwop, were Heaven amazed?
With my beak I strike but once;
Out there leap a million suns.
Through the universe that blazed
Screams theit light, and death is dazed.
In my womb the babe may leap;
Seek him not within my eye!
Nor demand thou of me why
I should plunge from crystal steep
Like a plummet to the deep!
See yon solitary star!
What a world of blackness wraps
Round it! Unimagined gaps!
Let it be! Content thy car
With the voyage to things that are!
Nor, an thou perchance behold
How I plunge and batten on
Earth’s exentrate carrion,
Deem torquoise match midden-mould
Or deny the Hawk of Gold!
A few random poems:
- Георгий Иванов – Теплятся жаркие свечи
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2 by Robert Burns
- Wife Killer by Vernon Scannell
- The Two Churches by William Barnes
- The Beginning of the End by Rixa White
- Upper Lambourne poem – John Betjeman poems
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- Memories of West Street and Lepke by Robert Lowell
- Вероника Тушнова – Молчание
- calling-the-spirits.html
- Composed Near Calais, On The Road Leading To Ardres, August 7, 1802 by William Wordsworth
- My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl by Vachel Lindsay
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The Astronomer by Rabindranath Tagore
- Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman
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
- Огюст Барбье – Лев
- Огюст Барбье – Леонардо да Винчи
- Огюст Барбье – Кьяйя
- Огюст Барбье – Котел
- Огюст Барбье – Корреджо
- Огюст Барбье – Кола ди Риенци
- Огюст Барбье – Известность
- Огюст Барбье – Идол
- Огюст Барбье – Эпилог
- Огюст Барбье – Джульетта милая
- Огюст Барбье – Джин
- Огюст Барбье – Дант
- Огюст Барбье – Чимароза
- Огюст Барбье – Бук
- Огюст Барбье – Берега моря
- Огюст Барбье – Барабанщик Барра
- Огюст Барбье – Аллегри
- Новелла Матвеева – Закон песен
- Новелла Матвеева – Я, говорит, не воин
- Новелла Матвеева – Художник, незнакомый с поощреньем
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
