A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
I had been sitting alone with books,
Till doubt was a black disease,
When I heard the cheerful shout of rooks
In the bare, prophetic trees.
Bare trees, prophetic of new birth,
You lift your branches clean and free
To be a beacon to the earth,
A flame of wrath for all to see.
And the rooks in the branches laugh and shout
To those that can hear and understand:
“Walk through the gloomy ways of doubt
With the torch of vision in your hand.”
A few random poems:
- Bathed in War’s Perfume. by Walt Whitman
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Лисица на суде перед Обезьяной
- A HYMN TO THE GRACES by Robert Herrick
- For Mêng Hao-jan by Wang Wei
- Inexpensive Progress poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Геннадий Айги – Дом в поле
- To a Friend poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сологуб – Кольцо и венок
- Ode to Beer, an Irish Song
- The Tree and the Marble by Mike Yuan
- Владимир Высоцкий – Все ушли на фронт
- Николай Языков – А. А. Елагину (Была прекрасна, весела…)
- Олег Бундур – И до моря 15 шагов
- The Rising and Falling of Trees by Patricia Fargnoli
- Владимир Бенедиктов – На море
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
Aldous Leonard Huxley (1894 – 1963) was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly fifty books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems.