A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
I know a thing that’s most uncommon;
(Envy, be silent and attend!)
I know a reasonable Woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a Friend.
Not warp’d by Passion, awed by Rumour;
Not grave through Pride, nor gay through Folly,
An equal Mixture of good Humour
And sensible soft Melancholy.
“Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?”
Yes, she has one, I must aver;
When all the World conspires to praise her,
The Woman’s deaf, and does not hear.
A few random poems:
- A Gravestone Upon The Floor In The Cloisters Of Worcester Cathedral by William Wordsworth
- Как привить ребенку любовь к чтению: советы и рекомендации – Poetry Monster
- Sick Leave by Siegfried Sassoon
- Илья Эренбург – Я бы мог прожить совсем иначе
- Nature And the Book poem – Alfred Austin
- Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- Sacred Epiphany poem – Ammar Nadeem poems | Poems and Poetry
- Book Twelfth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored ] by William Wordsworth
- The Keys of Morning by Walter de la Mare
- Владимир Солоухин – У тихой речки детство проводя
- Songs From “Prince Lucifer” II – Mother-Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Garden by Abraham Cowley
- For Roman Polanski by Nijole Miliauskaite
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
