A poem by Alan Dugan
I know but will not tell
you, Aunt Irene, why there
are soap suds in the whiskey:
Uncle Robert had to have
A drink while shaving.
A few random poems:
- Robert Burns: The Ordination : For sense they little owe to frugal Heav’n- To please the mob, they hide the little giv’n.
- Lines to Sir John Whitefoord, Bart by Robert Burns
- Из головы у меня не выходишь
- My Lady’s Law by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Маяковский – Не предаваясь “большевистским бредням” (Красный перец)
- Омар Хайям – О мудрец, если тот или этот дурак
- Владимир Вишневский – Звучит воинственно: “носки”
- Drummer Boy by Thomas J Camp
- Four Quartets 4: Little Gidding by T. S. Eliot
- Love is a Tree by Rumi
- Robert Burns: Deluded Swain, The Pleasure:
- The Leaders Of The Crowd by William Butler Yeats
- Borderland poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Scribbles by Suchi Gaur
- A Descriptive Poem on the Silvery Tay by William Topaz McGonagall
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
- Strumpet Song by Sylvia Plath
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Stopped Dead by Sylvia Plath
- Stings by Sylvia Plath
- Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
- Spinster by Sylvia Plath
- Spider by Sylvia Plath
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Rhyme by Sylvia Plath
- Resolve by Sylvia Plath
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- Pursuit by Sylvia Plath
- Purdah by Sylvia Plath
- Prospect by Sylvia Plath
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Point Shirley by Sylvia Plath
- Poems, Potatoes by Sylvia Plath
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Parallel Translations of Poetry
The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.