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:
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- A Deep Sworn Vow by William Butler Yeats
- Natural History by Sylvia Plath
- A Wold Friend by William Barnes
- Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert by William Cowper
- Ольга Высотская – Обидчивая кукушка
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- Ольга Берггольц – Вот я выбирала для разлуки
- Вероника Тушнова – Мне говорят, нету такой любви
- Владимир Вишневский – Как некстати или срыв спецоперации
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 03 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Old Homeless Man by Walter William Safar
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Леля
- Владимир Британишский – О чем размышляют
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
