A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
So when Curll’s Stomach the strong Drench o’ercame,
(Infus’d in Vengenance of insulted Fame)
Th’ Avenger sees, with a delighted Eye,
His long Jaws open, and his Colour fly;
And while his Guts the keen Emeticks urge,
Smiles on the Vomit, and enjoys the Purge.
A few random poems:
- Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
- Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
- Николай Гумилев – Как труп, бессилен небосклон
- Picture by Nijole Miliauskaite
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Resurgam
- Алишер Навои – Если б был я быстрым ветром
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
- The Parabolic Ballad poem – Andrei Voznesensky poems
- Sonnet CXL by William Shakespeare
- A Servant to Servants by Robert Frost
- I Make My bed Of Roses by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Владимир Маяковский – Для Донбасса формируется поезд с подарками (РОСТА №938)
- Welcome A.O.H. Men by Michael McGovern
- Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
