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:
- To One Who Has Been Long In City Pent poem – John Keats poems
- Новелла Матвеева – Пушкин
- A Night Thought by William Wordsworth
- We Are To Play The Game Of Death by Rabindranath Tagore
- Eclogue:–Two Farms In Woone by William Barnes
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 21.1. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- Thomas Lux – Thomas Lux
- Юлиан Анисимов – Камнем сгрудилась комната
- Владимир Луговской – Почтовый переулок
- Николай Языков – Вечер (Прохладен воздух был)
- Нина Воронель – Московский день
- Владимир Британишский – Феодосия, Керчь, Таганрог
- Владимир Высоцкий – В Средней Азии безобразие
- A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
- Written for a Musician by Vachel Lindsay
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):
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