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:
- Николай Языков – П. В. Киреевскому (Ты крепкий, праведный стоятель)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сказка о несчастных сказочных персонажах
- Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Wind poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Caught in a Net by Vachel Lindsay
- Mother’s Love by Nin Andrews
- 1991-I by Wendell Berry
- Song of the Red War-Boat by Rudyard Kipling
- Song-Books of the War by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Defeat of Youth poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- From Behind The Lattice
- The House Where We Were Wed by Will McKendree Carleton
- Николай Гумилев – Заклинание
- Epigram on an Innkeeper (“The Marquis”) by Robert Burns
- Галина Гампер – Здесь сегодня все пошло с молотка
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
- Readen Ov A Head-Stwone by William Barnes
- “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
- Praise O’ Do’set by William Barnes
- Polly Be-en Upzides Wi’ Tom by William Barnes
- Poll’s Jack-Daw by William Barnes
- A Pleäce In Zight by William Barnes
- Pentridge By The River by William Barnes
- Out At Plough by William Barnes
- Out A-Nuttèn by William Barnes
- Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
- Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
- Our Abode In Arby Wood by William Barnes
- Not Goo Hwome To-Night by William Barnes
- Night A-Zetten In by William Barnes
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
- Naighbour Pla Meätes by William Barnes
- My Love’s Guardian Angel by William Barnes
- My Love Is Good by William Barnes
- Mornèn by William Barnes
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.
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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
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.