A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
So when Curll’s Stomach the strong Drench o’ercame,
(Infus’d in Vengenance of insulted Fame)
Th’ Avenger sees, with a delighted Eye,
His long Jaws open, and his Colour fly;
And while his Guts the keen Emeticks urge,
Smiles on the Vomit, and enjoys the Purge.
A few random poems:
- My Mother’s Grief
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- Sonnet LXVII by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Толстой – Рондо
- The Rice Was Under Water
- Robert Burns: To Dr. Maxwell: On Miss Jessy Staig’s recovery.
- The Lame Guy by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Омар Хайям – Для тех, кто умирает
- Алексей Толстой – Ты почто, злая кручинушка
- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Степанов – Следом за летом осень
- The Indian To His Love by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Уймется Антанта… (РОСТА №571)
- Валерий Брюсов – Из тихих бездн
- Vehicles by W. S. Merwin
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
