A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
I
But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.
II
Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.
III
Some who grow dull religious strait commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sence.
IV
Wits starve as useless to a Common weal
While Fools have places purely for their Zea.
V
Now wits gain praise by copying other wits
As one Hog lives on what another sh—.
VI
Wou’d you your writings to some Palates fit
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit
For authors now are so conceited grown
They praise no works but what are like their own.
A few random poems:
- My Heart Leaps Up by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet LXV by William Shakespeare
- Шекспир – Но не боюсь и смерть – Сонет 80
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Заяц-врун
- Orlando Furioso Canto 3 by Ludovico Ariosto
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я видел тень блаженства
- Владимир Высоцкий – Однако, втягивать живот
- Night by Sidney Lanier
- At Malvern by William Lisle Bowles
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Михаил Кузмин – Заключение (Водительница Одигитрия)
- Mowgli’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Lunar Eclipse by Satish Verma
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
