A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
In vain you boast Poetic Names of yore,
And cite those Sapho’s we admire no more:
Fate doom’d the Fall of ev’ry Female Wit,
But doom’d it then when first Ardelia writ.
Of all Examples by the World confest,
I knew Ardelia could not quote the best;
Who, like her Mistress on Britannia’s Throne;
Fights, and subdues in Quarrels not her own.
To write their Praise you but in vain essay;
Ev’n while you write, you take that Praise away:
Light to the Stars the Sun does thus restore,
But shines himself till they are seen no more.
A few random poems:
- Southern Sunrise by Sylvia Plath
- Scythe Song poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Evening Light poem – Alfred Austin
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Пароход пришел
- Because I Cannot Sleep by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Иннокентий Анненский – Франсис Жамм. Когда для всех меня не станет меж живыми
- Новелла Матвеева – Есть вопиющий быт, есть вещие примеры
- Ballade Of Truisms by William Ernest Henley
- Владимир Британишский – Фет в кирасирском полку
- Love Sonnet XXVI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Олег Бундур – Вечером
- The Song of the Sons by Rudyard Kipling
- The Church An’ Happy Zunday by William Barnes
- Николай Заболоцкий – Искушение
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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
