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:
- On Passing The New Menin Gate by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Superscription On Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia, Sent For A Token by William Strode
- Tithonus
- Михаил Кузмин – Живется нам не плохо
- Hymn From A Watermelon Pavilion by Wallace Stevens
- Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic
- An Afternoon by Raymond Carver
- Федор Сологуб – Золушка
- A March in the Ranks, Hard-prest. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Седакова – Три зеркала
- In Spite Of by Patricia Farley
- Николай Заболоцкий – На лестницах
- Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
- Olney Hymn 36: Afflictions Sanctified By The Word by William Cowper
- Sonnet Xv
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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
