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:
- Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein
- On Rabbi Kook’s Street by Yehuda Amichai
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты обут? Тебя обувает фабрика… (РОСТА №601)
- Life a battlefield by Tanisha Avarsekar
- One Night as I did Wander by Robert Burns
- Slag by Mark Base
- Relations by Sunil Sharma
- Unrequited Pathological
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Аля Кудряшева – Поперек
- The Brave and the Love Flute by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Луговской – Повелитель бумаги
- Sonnet 103: Alack, what poverty my Muse brings forth by William Shakespeare
- Infinite Journey by Pawan Kumar
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.