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 Columbian Exchange Beginning With Spanish Colonization
- Carry Her Over the Water by W H Auden
- From The ‘Antigone’ by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Her Answer:
- Robert Burns: Blythe Hae I been On Yon Hill:
- Алексей Плещеев – Когда твой кроткий, ясный взор
- The Eolian Harp by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Жан Расин – Андромаха
- Two sparrows and my heart by Nizar Sartawi
- On the Death of John M’Leod, Esq. by Robert Burns
- Илья Эренбург – Я слышу всё, и горестные шепоты
- Back I Go to My Prison by Ms Tabzeer Yaseen
- Conqueror by Russell Hughes Ragsdale
- Attack On The Ad-Man
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 3 – Look how the flower by William Drummond
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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
