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:
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Степан Щипачев – Обращение к времени
- Where we fall by Osman cisse Hanif
- Ольга Берггольц – Наш сад
- He is more than a hero by Sappho
- Sonnet 105: Let not my love be called idolatry by William Shakespeare
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты все еще тревожишься — что будет
- Mutability by William Wordsworth
- The Eclipsed Past by Tholana Ashok Chakravarthy
- Hortus poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Moor-Hen:
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- Ballades I – To Theocritus, In Winter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о вещем Олеге
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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