A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
I know a thing that’s most uncommon;
(Envy, be silent and attend!)
I know a reasonable Woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a Friend.
Not warp’d by Passion, awed by Rumour;
Not grave through Pride, nor gay through Folly,
An equal Mixture of good Humour
And sensible soft Melancholy.
“Has she no faults then (Envy says), Sir?”
Yes, she has one, I must aver;
When all the World conspires to praise her,
The Woman’s deaf, and does not hear.
A few random poems:
- Two Songs Of Advent by Yvor Winters
- Gods. by Walt Whitman
- We Are To Play The Game Of Death by Rabindranath Tagore
- Untitled #12 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Grumpy Old Man by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Inheritance by Thomas J Camp
- Владимир Корнилов – Дождь обычный
- I don’t want to have you by Vinko Kalinic
- The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- It’s Beautiful to See Through the Eyes of the Sky by Walter William Safar
- The Little Boy And The Old Man by Shel Silverstein
- Василий Курочкин – Мчит меня в твои объятья
- The Land of the Exile by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Кузмин – Звезда Афродиты
- The Common Life by W H Auden
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
