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 Маяковский – Ты не пошел на фронт бить барона?.. (РОСТА №451)
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Olney Hymn 5: Jehovah-Shalom: The Lord Send Peace by William Cowper
- Sonnet 02 poem – John Milton poems
- any_man_speaks.html
- Sonnet 21 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот советской России враги. С каждым боритесь, пока не погиб (РОСТА № 179)
- Al calor de una guitarra by Mara Romero Torres
- A Farmhouse Dirge poem – Alfred Austin
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 poem – Alexander Pope
- Mujer Libanesa I poem – Amir Ibn Tawfik poems | Poems and Poetry
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- Sonnet 63: Against my love shall be, as I am now by William Shakespeare
- Barmaid by William Ernest Henley
- A Lament For Adonis by Sappho
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
