A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
When other fair ones to the shades go down,
Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:
Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
A few random poems:
- A Dog’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- “Behold Vale! I Said, When I Shall Con” by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я уверен, как ни разу в жизни
- Inscription For A Moss-House In The Shrubbery At Weston by William Cowper
- No LOVE by venkatesh.valusa
- Владимир Набоков – Шахматный конь
- Psalm 87 poem – John Milton poems
- Felixstowe, or The Last of Her Order poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Sonnet On Receiving A Favour: Addressed to Robert Graham, Esq. of Fintry.
- Anticipation poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
- The Needle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Юлия Друнина – Я горожанка
- His Mistress to Him at his Farewell by Robert Herrick
- The Beacon Fires
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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