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:
- Astrophel and Stella VII: WhenNature Made her Chief Work by Sir Philip Sidney
- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
- The Craftsman by Rudyard Kipling
- Life Brings Me to this Journey. by Stephen Sweitzer
- The Enemies Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Adieu to Belshanny by William Allingham
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вратарь (Льву Яшину)
- Absence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Заболоцкий – Осеннее утро
- The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
- The Twa Sisters poem – Andrew Lang poems
- THE MOSAIC by Satish Verma
- Eucalyptus Grove, morning by Neal Dachstadter
- To My Brother George poem – John Keats poems
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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