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 Gardener LV: It Was Mid-Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Jockey’s Taen The Parting Kiss:
- Sonnet To A Young Lady On Her Birth-Day by William Cowper
- Юлия Жадовская – Заколдованное сердце
- “I Sometimes Think” by Thomas Hardy
- The Bride poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- “The Girt Woak Tree That’s In the Dell” by William Barnes
- Robert Burns: On Sensibility: Fragment
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Robert Aiken, Esq.:
- On Receiving Hayley’s Picture by William Cowper
- Федор Сологуб – Певице
- Виктор Колесников – Вороний мат во все концы
- Алексей Толстой – Тебя так любят все
- Essay on Man poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- The Basket poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Федор Сологуб – Лепестками завялыми
- Федор Сологуб – Ландыши, ландыши, бедные цветы
- Федор Сологуб – Ландыш пленительный
- Федор Сологуб – Купол церкви, крест и небо
- Федор Сологуб – Кукушка кукует
- Федор Сологуб – Круг начертан, и Сивилла
- Федор Сологуб – Краем прибережной кручи
- Федор Сологуб – Короткая радость сгорела
- Федор Сологуб – Колёса по рельсам гудели
- Федор Сологуб – Кольцо и венок
- Федор Сологуб – Когда я в бурном море плавал
- Федор Сологуб – Ах, лягушки по дорожке
- Федор Сологуб – Астероид
- Федор Сологуб – Ариадна
- Sergei Esenin – Sergueï Essénine – Stars
- Эмиль Верхарн – Звонарь
- Эмиль Верхарн – Золото
- Эмиль Верхарн – Зимняя пора
- Эмиль Верхарн – Женщина в черном
- Эмиль Верхарн – Здравствуй, подруга
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
