I.
A BIRD delicious to the taste,
On which an army once did feast,
Sent by an hand unseen;
A creature of the horned race,
Which Britain’s royal standards grace;
A gem of vivid green;
II.
A town of gaiety and sport,
Where beaux and beauteous nymphs resort,
And gallantry doth reign;
A Dardan hero fam’d of old
For youth and beauty, as we’re told,
And by a monarch slain;
III.
A peer of popular applause,
Who doth our violated laws,
And grievances proclaim.
Th’ initials show a vanquish’d town,
That adds fresh glory and renown
To old Britannia’s fame.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Time Out To Cry by Shannen Wrass
- A Token by Robert Creeley
- L’Envoi by Rudyard Kipling
- Омар Хайям – Люблю вино, ловлю веселья миг
- Ок Мельникова – Блюз-16
- A youth in apparel that glittered by Stephen Crane
- Under Cover of Night by Robert Desnos
- Низами Гянджеви – Слышишь, звякнул бубенцами
- Валерий Брюсов – Филлида
- An Untold Tale by Shahida Latif
- Алексей Ржевский – Рок все теперь свершил, надежды больше нет
- Robert Burns: I Hae a Wife O’ My Ain:
- Priorities of Life and Death
- four legs good, two legs badOwl Hoots and Grasshopper Sings by Raj Arumugam
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
Phillis Wheatley (1753-84), a negro poetess, also an American poet or Afro-American poet, and an English Colonial poet, . She was born in Africa (in Gambia or Senegal) and was aptured by slave traders at the age of eight, she was sold to a family living in Boston, Mass., whose name she bears. While serving as a maid-servant to her proprietor’s wife, she showed an unusual facility with languages. She began writing poetry at the age of thirteen, using as models British poets of the time, especially Alexander Pope and Thomas Gray). In 1773 she accompanied a member of the Wheatley family to England, where she gained widespread attention in literary circles. She subsequently returned to Boston. Her best-known poems are “To the University of Cambridge in New England” (1767), In all honestly Phillis Wheatley should rather be considered English than an Afro-American poet but the exact classification of who she was would depend on the political and cultural views, and biases, of the “classifier.