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:
- Владимир Гиппиус – Закон чего? – закона нет
- Robert Burns: Address To The Shade Of Thomson: On Crowning His Bust at Ednam, Roxburghshire, with a Wreath of Bays.
- Ode to the Bat , a Sonnet
- The Gardener XXIX: Speak To Me My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lines On The Mermaid Tavern poem – John Keats poems
- Attitude To A Miss by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Animals Are Passing From Our Lives by Philip Levine
- The Leaden-Eyed by Vachel Lindsay
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мельник, Сын его и Осел
- A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale
- Олег Бундур – Певец Александр Серов
- Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary
- The First Thrush by Mary Gilmore
- The Wold Vo’k Dead by William Barnes
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
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- 12 Surefire Brainstorming Techniques
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- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
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- Secrets of Academic Success: Passion
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)
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
