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
- Robert Burns: O Steer Her Up An’ Haud Her Gaun:
- The New Faces by William Butler Yeats
- Lover’s Gifts LIV: In the Beginning of Time by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: The Weary Pund O’ Tow:
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
- April Aubade by Sylvia Plath
- Федор Сологуб – Снова саваны надели
- Christabel by Samuel Coleridge
- Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Sonnet 06
- The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt by Shel Silverstein
- This Morning by Raymond Carver
- Burning Oneself Out
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищи, близятся ужасы зимы… (РОСТА №270)
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
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.