A poem by Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963)
Noonday upon the Alpine meadows
Pours its avalanche of Light
And blazing flowers: the very shadows
Translucent are and bright.
It seems a glory that nought surpasses–
Passion of angels in form and hue–
When, lo! from the jewelled heaven of the grasses
Leaps a lightning of sudden blue.
Dimming the sun-drunk petals,
Bright even unto pain,
The grasshopper flashes, settles,
And then is quenched again.
A few random poems:
- The Fairy Bridal-Hymn by Vachel Lindsay
- The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
- Grace before and after Meat by Robert Burns
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Владимир Луговской – Ночной патруль
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Лесная дева
- T.A.H. poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Костров – У них в делах анархия и жуть
- Barnfloor and Winepress poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Lent Lily by A. E. Housman
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Поденщик, тяжело навьюченный дровами)
- “Life of my life, you seem to me” by Torquato Tasso
- Meditation For Writing – Three Tips to Improve your Writing with Creative Meditation
- Омар Хайям – Друг, два понятия должен бы ты затвердить
- Наум Коржавин – Подмосковная платформа в апреле
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 Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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
Alcaeus of Mytilene ( c. 625/620 – c. 580 Before Christ) ] was a lyric poet from the Greek island of Lesbos who is credited with inventing the Alcaic stanza. He was included in the canonical list of nine lyric poets by the scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria.