A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
I
But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.
II
Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.
III
Some who grow dull religious strait commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sence.
IV
Wits starve as useless to a Common weal
While Fools have places purely for their Zea.
V
Now wits gain praise by copying other wits
As one Hog lives on what another sh—.
VI
Wou’d you your writings to some Palates fit
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit
For authors now are so conceited grown
They praise no works but what are like their own.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- Lonely Burial by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Her Dream by William Butler Yeats
- Miracles by Siegfried Sassoon
- Funeral Day Thoughts by Sudheesh Vs
- By The Fates poem – Alfred Austin
- To Independence by Tobias Smollett
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Ольга Седакова – Дикий шиповник
- Зинаида Александрова – Ромашки
- Аля Кудряшева – Какое там говорить. Я дышу с трудом
- They won’t Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- Владимир Маяковский – Наврут полный короб… (Главполитпросвет №68)
- Ольга Берггольц – Знаю, чем меня пленила
- Степан Щипачев – Застольное слово
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
