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:
- To a Gentleman, Who Married His Cast Mistress by William Somervile
- Альфред Теннисон – Прощание
- The Water Crowvoot by William Barnes
- Incident Characteristic Of A Favorite Dog by William Wordsworth
- Jilted by Sylvia Plath
- Book Sixth [Cambridge and the Alps] by William Wordsworth
- Landscapes poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Bowl Of Roses by William Ernest Henley
- Ballades II – Of The Book-Hunter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заколдованный месяц
- On The Morning Of Christs Nativity poem – John Milton poems
- Владислав Крапивин – Рыжий конь
- Алексей Жемчужников – Так прочен в сердце и в мозгу
- To the Rev. Dr. Thomas Amory by Phillis Wheatley
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
