A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Tho’ Artemisia talks, by fits,
Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;
Reads Malbranche, Boyle, and Locke;
Yet in some things methinks she fails,
‘Twere well if she would pare her nails,
And wear a cleaner smock.
Haughty and huge as High-Dutch bride,
Such nastiness, and so much pride
Are oddly join’d by fate:
On her large squab you find her spread,
Like a fat corpse upon a bed,
That lies and stinks in state.
She wears no colours (sign of grace)
On any part except her face;
All white and black beside:
Dauntless her look, her gesture proud,
Her voice theatrically loud,
And masculine her stride.
So have I seen, in black and white
A prating thing, a Magpye hight,
Majestically stalk;
A stately, worthless animal,
That plies the tongue, and wags the tail,
All flutter, pride, and talk.
A few random poems:
- September 1815 by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Без меня собираясь в застолье хмельном
- The Explorer by Rudyard Kipling
- Юрий Коринец – Тишина
- Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare
- Seaside Golf poem – John Betjeman poems
- Sleep In The Mojave Desert by Sylvia Plath
- Moon, I hear you are moving away by Raj Arumugam
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 9. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- May-Night by William Ellery Leonard
- The Lover Asks Forgiveness Because Of His Many Moods by William Butler Yeats
- In Memoriam Mae Noblitt poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Низами Гянджеви – О милый друг, давно пленен я
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
- Who does she think she is…. by Shel Silverstein
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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