A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Oh be thou blest with all that Heav’n can send,
Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend:
Not with those Toys the female world admire,
Riches that vex, and Vanities that tire.
With added years if Life bring nothing new,
But, like a Sieve, let ev’ry blessing thro’,
Some joy still lost, as each vain year runs o’er,
And all we gain, some sad Reflection more;
Is that a Birth-Day? ’tis alas! too clear,
‘Tis but the funeral of the former year.
Let Joy or Ease, let Affluence or Content,
And the gay Conscience of a life well spent,
Calm ev’ry thought, inspirit ev’ry grace.
Glow in thy heart, and smile upon thy face.
Let day improve on day, and year on year,
Without a Pain, a Trouble, or a Fear;
Till Death unfelt that tender frame destroy,
In some soft Dream, or Extasy of joy,
Peaceful sleep out the Sabbath of the Tomb,
And wake to Raptures in a Life to come.
A few random poems:
- Avec seulement du noir by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- A New Song to an Old Tune by William Ernest Henley
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Mozart’s Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- I Said Coffee by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Apologize by Miraj Patel
- Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare
- Sometimes with One I Love. by Walt Whitman
- “`If you were mine, if you were mine” poem – Alfred Austin
- Presentiment poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Two Kinds of Intelligence by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Love Lightly
- C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
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
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- Physically Hearted
- On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Not my poem
- My Sad Self poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Mugging (I) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
- Meaning of silence-ness.
- Making The Lion For All It’s Got — A Ballad poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- It Would poem – Alice Notley
- Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Human Tendency
- Gift poem – Alice Notley
- Feast of the Eyes
- City of My Childhood
- Cezanne’s Ports poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Borow
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
