A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade!
Scene of my youthful loves and happier hours!
Where the kind Muses met me as I stray’d,
And gently press’d my hand, and said “Be ours!-
Take all thou e’er shalt have, a constant Muse:
At Court thou may’st be liked, but nothing gain:
Stock thou may’st buy and sell, but always lose,
And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain.”
A few random poems:
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- In Paths Untrodden. by Walt Whitman
- O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
- Ольга Берггольц – Здравствуй
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- Николай Языков – Дума (Одну минуту, много две)
- Вероника Тушнова – Знаешь ли ты, что такое горе
- Владимир Набоков – Как часто я в поезде скором
- X: Some Verses: To His Most Affectionate Friend Mr. Lithgow by William Alexander
- Robert Burns: Pinned To Mrs. Walter Riddell’s Carriage:
- Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
- Витя, Витенка, Витюша
- Solitude at an Inn by Thomas Warton
- E-waste by Nisha Gopalakrishnan
- A Child’s Evening Prayer by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
