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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабкор (Лбом пробив безграмотья горы)
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Said Occasion [On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Pity For Poor Africans by William Cowper
- Night by Sidney Lanier
- God Of Roads by Yvor Winters
- You Can Have It by Philip Levine
- Владимир Маяковский – Думай об армии (РОСТА №873)
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- The Fruit Garden Path poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dead Men’s Love by Rupert Brooke
- Duty Surviving Self-Love by Samuel Coleridge
- Юнна Мориц – Не вспоминай меня
- Thoughts. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Набоков – Верба
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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