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:
- Наум Коржавин – О Господи! Как я хочу умереть
- The Empty Boats by Vachel Lindsay
- Youth And The Pilgrim by Sara Teasdale
- Night A-Zetten In by William Barnes
- Нина Воронель – Предчувствие погрома
- Robert Burns: My Father Was A Farmer:
- WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Epitaph
- Николай Заболоцкий – Воздушное путешествие
- Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad? by William Butler Yeats
- A Stepmother’s Vain Love by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Олег Бундур – Деревенская история
- Daddy, daddy, I can’t go to school by Raj Arumugam
- The Proud Farmer by Vachel Lindsay
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
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Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
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Poems in English
- Readen Ov A Head-Stwone by William Barnes
- “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
- Praise O’ Do’set by William Barnes
- Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
- Poll’s Jack-Daw by William Barnes
- A Pleäce In Zight by William Barnes
- Pentridge By The River by William Barnes
- Out At Plough by William Barnes
- Out A-Nuttèn by William Barnes
- Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
- Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
- Our Abode In Arby Wood by William Barnes
- Not Goo Hwome To-Night by William Barnes
- Night A-Zetten In by William Barnes
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
- Naighbour Pla Meätes by William Barnes
- My Love’s Guardian Angel by William Barnes
- My Love Is Good by William Barnes
- Mornèn by William Barnes
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