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:
- Юлия Друнина – Ветер с фронта
- Омар Хайям – Не горюй, что забудется имя твое
- Шекспир – Ты утоляешь мой голодный взор – Сонет 75
- Come, My Beloved, Hear From Me by Robert Louis Stevenson
- To Delia by William Cowper
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою)
- When the Lad for Longing Sigh poem – A. E. Housman
- Константин Батюшков – На книгу под названием «Смесь»
- Robert Burns: How Long And Dreary Is The Night :
- One Being Brought From Africa To America by Phillis Wheatley
- On The High Price Of Fish by William Cowper
- Владимир Маяковский – Ненавистью древней… (РОСТА № 198)
- Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- What Semiramis Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Ольга Седакова – Неужели, Мария, только рамы скрипят
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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.