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:
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Everything by Philip Levine
- Alone in the Wind, on the Prairie by Vachel Lindsay
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- The Death Of Adonis by Sappho
- My Dead Dream by Sarojini Naidu
- Иван Дмитриев – Смерть и Умирающий
- A Poem to my Beloved by Walter William Safar
- Shining Armour by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка
- Владимир Высоцкий – Надпись на афише Смехову к 400-му спектаклю «Антимиры»
- Ок Мельникова – Плацкарт-блюз
- The Empty Boats by Vachel Lindsay
- Юлия Друнина – Девчонка – что надо!
- Николай Глазков – Почему я отказался от самолёта
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
