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:
- To a Gentleman on His Voyage to Great-Britain by Phillis Wheatley
- Вера Звягинцева – Моя любовь к Армении похожа
- An Inion poem – by Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- At Malvern by William Lisle Bowles
- The Amendis to the Telyouris and Sowtaris for the Turnament maid on thame
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- VII: Some Verses: On The Death of John Murray by William Alexander
- Sonnet II: Not At First Sight by Sir Philip Sidney
- Unstitching by Satish Verma
- Divided Destinies by Rudyard Kipling
- The Voice of Robert Desnos by Robert Desnos
- Grow Up: Time to Give Up Your YA Books
- From The North by Sara Teasdale
- The Truth About Propolis Benefits
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
