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:
- The Riddle of the World poem – Alexander Pope
- The Starling poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Pastoral Upon The Birth of Prince Charles: Presented to the King, and Set by Mr Nic. Laniere by Robert Herrick
- Михаил Лермонтов – Вид гор из степей Козлова
- Владимир Высоцкий – О знаках Зодиака
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- The Return of Persephone
- Book Fourteenth [conclusion] by William Wordsworth
- Bituminous? by Shel Silverstein
- In The New Sun by Philip Levine
- Spiritual Memories of Mother by Raj Napal
- Sonnet 54: O, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem by William Shakespeare
- The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath
- Dying Speech of an Old Philosopher by Walter Savage Landor
- Last Words by Philip Levine
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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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