A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Only the stars endome the lonely camp,
Only the desert leagues encompass it;
Waterless wastes, a wilderness of wit,
Embattled Cold, Imagination’s Cramp.
Now were the Desolation fain to stamp
The congealed Spirit of man into the pit,
Save that, unquenchable because unlit,
The Love of God burns steady, like a Lamp.
It burns ! beyond the sands, beyond the stars.
It burns ! beyond the bands, beyond the bars.
And so the Expanse of Mystery, veil by veil,
Burns inward, plume on plume still folding over
The dissolved heart of the amazéd lover-
The angel wings upon the Holy Grail!
W’aint t’ Aissha.
A few random poems:
- An Epitaph Upon A Virgin by Robert Herrick
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Princess: A Medley: O Swallow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- The Rose Tree by William Butler Yeats
- Zion by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Электричество – вид энергии
- Devotion by Robert Frost
- Music’s Empire poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Music O’ The Dead by William Barnes
- Lines to John Syme, Esq., with a dozen of Porter by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – В далёком созвездии Тау Кита
- Waiting For The Beloved — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чёрный цвет
- Defamation by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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
