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:
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- Pandering by Satish Verma
- Miss Loo by Walter de la Mare
- Robert Burns: The Book-Worms:
- Джон Китс – Два-три букета и две-три коробки
- Олег Григорьев – Картинка
- English Poetry. Robert William Service. My Room. Роберт Уильям Сервис.
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. by Walt Whitman
- Portrait of a Baby by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Владимир Маяковский – В мире два класса… (РОСТА №501)
- In Absence. by Sidney Lanier
- Владимир Маяковский – Политические партии в России
- The Busy Indolent by William Somervile
- A Man, They Made a God by Walid Saba
- Yadwigha, On A Red Couch, Among Lillies by Sylvia Plath
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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
