A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Come gentle Air! th’ AEolian shepherd said,
While Procris panted in the secret shade:
Come, gentle Air, the fairer Delia cries,
While at her feet her swain expiring lies.
Lo the glad gales o’er all her beauties stray,
Breathe on her lips, and in her bosom play!
In Delia’s hand this toy is fatal found,
Nor could that fabled dart more surely wound:
Both gifts destructive to the givers prove;
Alike both lovers fall by those they love.
Yet guiltless too this bright destroyer lives,
At random wounds, nor knows the wound she gives:
She views the story with attentive eyes,
And pities Procris, while her lover dies.
A few random poems:
- Vintage poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Низами Гянджеви – Тропы мне ни в духан, ни к богу нету
- Moonlight by Vita Sackville-West
- The Walk by Noel Angelo Hurley
- Hugh Selwyn Mauberly (Part I) poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Catharina : The Second Part. On Her Marriage To George Courtenay, Esq. by William Cowper
- Epigram on a Country Laird (Cardoness) by Robert Burns
- Eternal Existence by Mark Miller
- All Night in Savannah the Wind Wrote Poetry by Aberjhani
- Олег Сердобольский – Пришли цыплята в первый класс
- Farewell To Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- Composed By The Side Of Grasmere Lake 1806 by William Wordsworth
- Medusa by Sylvia Plath
- Summer Stillness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
