Crapulous Impression poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster

A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)

(To J.S.)

Still life, still life … the high-lights shine

Hard and sharp on the bottles: the wine

Stands firmly solid in the glasses,

Smooth yellow ice, through which there passes

The lamp’s bright pencil of down-struck light.

The fruits metallically gleam,

Globey in their heaped-up bowl,

And there are faces against the night

Of the outer room–faces that seem

Part of this still, still life … they’ve lost their soul.

And amongst these frozen faces you smiled,

Surprised, surprisingly, like a child:

And out of the frozen welter of sound

Your voice came quietly, quietly.

“What about God?” you said. “I have found

Much to be said for Totality.

All, I take it, is God: God’s all–

This bottle, for instance …” I recall,

Dimly, that you took God by the neck–

God-in-the-bottle–and pushed Him across:

But I, without a moment’s loss

Moved God-in-the-salt in front and shouted: “Check!”

Poetry Monster – Home

A few random poems:

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 

• Limbo Under the Westway poem – André Rostant poems by André Rostant
• A Rainy Night poem – André Rostant poems by André Rostant
• “European Union” by the (Roman/German) Eagles by André Rostant
• 決定 by André Rodriguez
• Decision by André Rodriguez
• 我的妻子。 安德烈·布勒東一首關於自由戀愛的詩 by André Breton
• Less Time poem – Andre Breton poems by André Breton
• Freedom of Love poem | L’Union Libre (Ma Femme)  – Andre Breton poems by André Breton
• Le Verbe Etre poem – Andre Breton poems by André Breton
• Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems by André Breton
• Always for the first time by André Breton
• I have a dream by Glory Of Mankind
• Putin, Our Savior and Dear Friend by Poetry Slave
• Shame by Poetry Slave
• A Poem about Lemonade by Poetry Slave
• About Wedding Dress by Poetry Slave
• Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: a shepherd poet by Fledermaus
• What Shall I Do For the Land that Bred Me poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins
• Tom’s Garland poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems by Gerald Manley Hopkins

More external links (open in a new tab):

Russian Commerce Agency

Dealing Monster

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

Poems by Author and Category

The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works