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:
- Ольга Седакова – Selva selvaggia
- Bustopher Jones: The Cat About Town by T. S. Eliot
- Ольга Берггольц – Триптих 1949 года
- The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
- Epistle to Major Logan by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Behold The Hour, The Boat, Arrive:
- Blue eyes by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Огюст Барбье – Жертвы
- A Late Walk by Robert Frost
- Виолетта Бережная – Много у меня друзей
- Алексей Толстой – Уж ласточки, кружась, над крышей щебетали
- To the Duke of Marlborough, upon His Removal From All His Places by William Somervile
- Sonnet CLIV by William Shakespeare
- The City Limits poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2 poem – Alexander Pope
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.
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The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
