A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
I
How should I seek to make a song for thee
When all my music is to moan thy name?
That long sad monotone; the same; the same –
Matching the mute insatiable sea
That throbs with life’s bewitching agony,
Too long to measure and too fierce to tame!
An hurtful joy, a fascinating shame
Is this great ache that grips the heart of me.
Even as a cancer, so this passion gnaws
Away my soul, and will not ease its jaws
Till I am dead. Then let me die! Who knows
But that this corpse committed to the earth
May be the occasion of some happier birth?
Spring’s earliest snowdrop? Summer’s latest rose?
II
Thou knowest what asp hath fixed its lethal tooth
In the white breast that trembled like a flower
At thy name whispered. thou hast marked how hour
By hour its poison hath dissolved my youth,
Half skilled to agonise, half skilled to soothe
This passion ineluctable, this power
Slave to its single end, to storm the tower
That holdeth thee, who art Authentic Truth.
O golden hawk! O lidless eye! Behold
How the grey creeps upon the shuddering gold!
Still I will strive! That thou mayst sweep
Swift on the dead from thine all-seeing steep –
And the unutterable word by spoken.
A few random poems:
- Purity by Rabindranath Tagore
- A Lover To His Mistress by William Strode
- Владимир Корнилов – АЯМ
- A Fable by William Cowper
- Владимир Луговской – Почтовый переулок
- Thrushes by Ted Hughes
- Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
- Ode to the Bat , a Sonnet
- Hymn For The Use Of The Sunday School At Olney by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: Lines To John M’Murdo, Esq. Of Drumlanrig: Sent with some of the Author’s Poems.
- Miss Worthington by Rose Mary Boehm
- One’s-Self I Sing. by Walt Whitman
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- The Licorice Fields at Pontefract poem – John Betjeman poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия — единое советское хозяйство (РОСТА № 280)
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
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- Lulu by Manolo Arriola
- Khanaa’s Song by Mallika Sengupta
- In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- Identity Card by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Didn’t Apologize to the Well by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Come From There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Belong There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Want To Write by Margaret Walker
- Hora Cero by Manolo Arriola
- Heaven, an envious home by Mahak Raithatha S
- He Is Calm, and I Am Too by Mahmoud Darwish
- Hate Survives by Mac McGovern
- Halloween by Mac Hammond
- Frijolita by Manolo Arriola
- FREEDOM by Mac McGovern
- For Life and Death of a Poet by Marcin Malek
- FLORECER by Manolo Arriola
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