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:
- Николай Гумилев – За гробом
- Ce N’est Jamais Le Même Jardin by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Autumn Song by W H Auden
- Николай Языков – В. М. Княжевичу (Простите мне простое «ты»)
- Владимир Костров – Что может знать чужак
- Into The Twilight by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Костров – Просыпаюсь от сердечной боли
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- Robert Burns: The Cooper O’ Cuddy:
- Николай Гумилев – Когда спокойно так и равнодушно мы
- Ольга Берггольц – В доме Павлова
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- Memo to my Spouse by Adeola Ikuomola
- Федор Сологуб – Зачем, скажи
- Sonnet 08
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- Hai Kou Unpublished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
