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:
- THE MOSAIC by Satish Verma
- The Woman in the Ordinary by Marge Piercy
- Faun by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet CXXXII by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress:
- Dedication For A Plot Of Ground by William Carlos Williams
- Creativity in America and How Italians Can Learn From American Ingenuity
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Song of the Borderguard by Robert Duncan
- Федор Сологуб – Тень решётки прочной
- At Galway Races by William Butler Yeats
- Sweethearts of the Year by Vachel Lindsay
- The Twa Sisters poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Cremona Violin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Diary of a Palestinian Wound by Mahmoud Darwish
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
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- Низами Гянджеви – От сердца всю ночь мечтал
- Низами Гянджеви – О милый друг, давно пленен я
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
- Низами Гянджеви – Ну, как живешь
- Низами Гянджеви – Не горюй, ибо друг есть
- Низами Гянджеви – Мне ночь не в ночь, мне в ночь невмочь
- Низами Гянджеви – Месяц неполный прошел
- Низами Гянджеви – Лишь с луной сравниться
- Низами Гянджеви – Лица серебряный овал в сиянье покажи
- Низами Гянджеви – Лейли и Меджнун
- Низами Гянджеви – Коль мы на весах любви
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ты локоны свои распустишь
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ее ароматом неслышно ветер повеет
- Низами Гянджеви – Из месяца лишь день прошел
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 9 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 7 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 5 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 3 из 15
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 15 из 15
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
