A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
When other fair ones to the shades go down,
Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:
Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Нынче бар в России нет… (Главполитпросвет №37)
- I took my lyre and said by Sappho
- Make Love and War by Michael O’Leary
- Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- The Net-Menders by Sylvia Plath
- Аля Кудряшева – Про ангелов
- Envoi poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Lover’s Gifts LVI: The Evening Was Lonely by Rabindranath Tagore
- Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
- Idylls Of The King: Song From The Marriage Of Geraint poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Вера Звягинцева – Шафрановым загаром
- The Aquittal Of Phryne poem – Alfred Austin
- Омар Хайям – Если бог не услышит меня в вышине
- Sonnet 91: Some glory in their birth, some in their skill by William Shakespeare
- The Douglas Tragedy poem – Andrew Lang poems
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
