A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
AN ATTACK ON BARBERCRAFT
[Dedicated to George Cecil Jones]
At last an end of all I hoped and feared!
Muttered the hermit through his elfin beard.
Then what art thou? the evil whisper whirred.
I doubt me soerly if the hermit heard.
To all God’s questions never a word he said,
But simply shook his venerable head.
God sent all plagues; he laughed and heeded not,
Till people certified him insane.
But somehow all his fellow-luntaics
Began to imitate his silly ticks.
And stranger still, their prospects so enlarged
That one by one the patients were discharged.
God asked him by what right he interfered;
He only laughed and into his elfin beard.
When God revealed Himself to mortal prayer
He gave a fatal opening to Voltaire.
Our Hermi had dispensed with Sinai’s thunder,
But on the other hand he made no blunder;
He knew ( no doubt) that any axiom
Would furnish bricks to build some Donkeydom.
But!-all who urged that hermit to confess
Caught the infection of his happiness.
I would it were my fate to dree his weird;
I think that I will grow an elfin beard.
A few random poems:
- Friends by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Зинаида Александрова – Прятки
- To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet LVI by William Shakespeare
- Look You, I’ll Go Pray by Vachel Lindsay
- Memory by William Butler Yeats
- In Cabin’d Ships at Sea. by Walt Whitman
- From The Long Sad Party by Mark Strand
- Happiness by Vishü Rita Krocha
- Book Eleventh: France [concluded] by William Wordsworth
- Song of the Broad-Axe. by Walt Whitman
- The Oak and the Rose by Shel Silverstein
- Robert Burns: Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring:
- My Winter Rose poem – Alfred Austin
- Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне
External links
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Poems in English
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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