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:
- Li Po, the moon and me by Raj Arumugam
- Now Finale to the Shore. by Walt Whitman
- Lyonesse
- Ballade Of The Midnight Forest poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Robert Burns: Highland Harry Back Again:
- Владимир Орлов – Как Таппи научился лаять
- There is a life-force within your soul by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Hoffer by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пожар
- On Being Asked For A War Poem by William Butler Yeats
- Ярослав Смеляков – В защиту домино
- Bring Us The Light by John Oxenham
- Do not be ashamed by Wendell Berry
- I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic
- Six-Word Poem by Monty Gilmer
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
- Федор Сологуб – Я дорогой невинной и смелою
- Федор Сологуб – Я часть загадки разгадал
- Федор Сологуб – Высока луна Господня
- Федор Сологуб – Выйди в поле полночное
- Федор Сологуб – Вы не умеете целовать мою землю
- Федор Сологуб – Всё зеленее и светлее
- Федор Сологуб – Волна морская – веселый шум
- Федор Сологуб – Водой спокойной отражены
- Федор Сологуб – Во внутреннем дворе отеля
- Федор Сологуб – Во мне мечты мои цветут
- Федор Сологуб – Вильгельм второй
- Федор Сологуб – Ветер в трубе
- Федор Сологуб – Веет ветер мне навстречу
- Федор Сологуб – В норе темно и мглисто
- Федор Сологуб – В моём бессилии люби меня
- Федор Сологуб – В моих мечтах такое постоянство
- Федор Сологуб – В моей лампаде ясный свет
- Федор Сологуб – В мантии серой
- Федор Сологуб – В лунном озарении
- Федор Сологуб – В лесу живет проказник неуёмный
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
