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:
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- The Fairies Break Their Dances poem – A. E. Housman
- Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
- Ecco Mormorar L’onde (Now The Waves Murmur) by Torquato Tasso
- His Phoenix by William Butler Yeats
- Three Sonnets Written In Mid-Channel poem – Alfred Austin
- Crazy Jane Reproved by William Butler Yeats
- Оливер Голдсмит – Послание в прозе и стихах
- The Dead Woman poem – Pablo Neruda
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Заяц-врун
- Омар Хайям – Красой затмила ты Китая дочерей
- A Historical Breakfast by Russell Edson
- Robert Bruce’s March to Bannockburn (Song) by Robert Burns
- Morpheus poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Британишский – Мальчики, девочки, литстудийцы
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
