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 Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
- Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Языков – Посвящение А. А. Воейковой «Песни короля Регнера»
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors by William Butler Yeats
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
- Алексей Жемчужников – Я музыкальным чувством обладаю
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In the Forest. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Шекспир – Ты положи с моей любовью рядом – Сонет 117
- Docker by Seamus Heaney
- For what’s worth breathing by Rixa White
- The Stwonèn Pworch by William Barnes
- Easter Decorations
- Thanksgiving for a Habitat by W H Auden
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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