A poem by Alistar Crowley (1875-1947)
Uncharmable charmer
Of Bacchus and Mars
In the sounding rebounding
Abyss of the stars!
O virgin in armour,
Thine arrows unsling
In the brilliant resilient
First rays of the spring!
By the force of the fashion
Of love, when I broke
Through the shroud, through the cloud,
Through the storm, through the smoke,
To the mountain of passion
Volcanic that woke —
By the rage of the mage
I invoke, I invoke!
By the midnight of madness: –
The lone-lying sea,
The swoon of the moon,
Your swoon into me,
The sentinel sadness
Of cliff-clinging pine,
That night of delight
You were mine, you were mine!
You were mine, O my saint,
My maiden, my mate,
By the might of the right
Of the night of our fate.
Though I fall, though I faint,
Though I char, though I choke,
By the hour of our power
I invoke, I invoke!
By the mystical union
Of fairy and faun,
Unspoken, unbroken –
The dust to the dawn! –
A secret communion
Unmeasured, unsung,
The listless, resistless,
Tumultuous tongue! –
O virgin in armour,
Thine arrows unsling,
In the brilliant resilient
First rays of the spring!
No Godhead could charm her,
But manhood awoke –
O fiery Valkyrie,
I invoke, I invoke!
A few random poems:
- Idylls of the King: The Passing of Arthur (excerpt) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Prayer For Lightning poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Purple Heart Liz (My Girl At Woodstock) by Steve Sant
- South Africa by Rudyard Kipling
- On A Mistake In His Translation Of Homer by William Cowper
- The Palace
- Out At Plough by William Barnes
- Владимир Набоков – Мечтал я о тебе так часто
- The Riddle by W H Auden
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
- The Flower poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope
- The Garden by Abraham Cowley
- The Craftsmen Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- And She is Spoke by Winifred Mary Letts
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
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение это
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи из предсмертной записки
- Стихи о советском паспорте – Маяковский: стих “Я достаю из широких штанин” Владимира Маяковского – Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихи о Фоме
- Владимир Маяковский – Стих как бы шофера
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- Владимир Маяковский – Стабилизация быта
- Владимир Маяковский – Спросили раз меня: “Вы любите ли НЭП?”
- Владимир Маяковский – Сплетник
- Владимир Маяковский – Современный Козьма Прутков
- Владимир Маяковский – Советский Союз, намотай на ус – кто Юз
- Владимир Маяковский – Советская азбука (Железо куй, пока горячее…)
- Владимир Маяковский – Совет Труда и Обороны сделал ассигнование миллионное… ( Главполитпросвет №64)
- Владимир Маяковский – Солнечный флаг
- Владимир Маяковский – Солдаты самодержавной армии мясниками бывали… (РОСТА №146)
- Владимир Маяковский – Собственную революцию удушив… (РОСТА №443)
- Владимир Маяковский – Со страхом и трепетом открывали газету… (РОСТА №705)
- Владимир Маяковский – Смыкай ряды
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, шахтер! (РОСТА №894)
- Владимир Маяковский – Смотри, рабочий! Вот о чем сегодня речь (Главполитпросвет №166)
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
