A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Strophe I.
Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought;
Groves, where immortal Sages taught;
Where heav’nly visions of Plato fir’d,
And Epicurus lay inspir’d!
In vain your guiltless laurels stood
Unspotted long with human blood.
War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades,
And steel now glitters in the Muses’ shades.
Antistrophe I.
Oh heav’n-born sisters! source of art!
Who charm the sense, or mend the heart;
Who lead fair Virtue’s train along,
Moral Truth, and mystic Song!
To what new clime, what distant sky,
Forsaken, friendless, shall ye fly?
Say, will you bless the bleak Atlantic shore?
Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more?
Strophe II.
When Athens sinks by fates unjust,
When wild Barbarians spurn her dust;
Perhaps ev’n Britain’s utmost shore,
Shall cease to blush with strager’s gore.
See Arts her savage sons control,
And Athens rising near the pole!
‘Till some new Tyrant lifts his purple hand,
And civil madness tears them from this land.
Antistrophe II.
Ye Gods! what justice rules the ball?
Freedom and Arts together fall;
Fools grant whate’er Ambition craves,
And men, once ignorant, are slaves.
Oh curs’d effects of civil hate,
In ev’ry age, in ev’ry state!
Still, when the lust of tyrant power succeeds,
Some Athens perishes, some Tully bleeds.
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- Mr Anonymous, a life by Raj Arumugam
- In The Early Pearly Morning
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- The Convoy by Stephenie Tucker
- Mauve Mittens by Vaishnavi Prakash
- LIGHT ECHOES by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Address to the shade of Thomson by Robert Burns
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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
- Джон Мильтон – Новым гонителям свободы
- Джон Мильтон – Написано в дни, когда ожидался штурм Лондона
- Джон Китс – Два-три букета и две-три коробки
- Джон Китс – Дуралейная песня
- Джон Китс – Девчонка из Девона
- Джон Китс – Делим яблоко Евы
- Джон Китс – Что ж, по горам и по долам
- Джон Китс – Четыре разных времени в году
- Джон Китс – Чаттертону
- Джон Донн – Женская верность
- Джон Донн – Я весь боренье, на беду мою
- Джон Донн – Христос, Свою невесту, всю в лучах
- Джон Донн – Ворожба над портретом
- Джон Донн – О черная душа, Недуг напал
- Джон Донн – Ничто
- Джон Донн – Мощи
- Джон Донн – Любовная наука
- Джон Донн – Лекция о тени
- Джон Донн – Когда я с ней, с моим бесценным кладом
- Демьян Бедный – Весенний благостный покой
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
