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:
- Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet
- Epigram—The True Loyal Natives by Robert Burns
- Владимир Степанов – Неваляшка (Буква Н)
- The house where I was born (07) by Yves Bonnefoy
- Atavism by William Stafford
- Алексей Жемчужников – Возрождение
- Rosalie’s Good Eats Cafe by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live by William Shakespeare
- “By Moscow Self-Devoted To A Blaze” by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 100: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget’st so long by William Shakespeare
- Post coitum omne animal triste est sive gallus et mulier by T. Wignesan.
- Юлия Друнина – Есть праздники, что навсегда с тобой
- Imitation Of Spenser poem – John Keats poems
- Огюст Барбье – Видимость
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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
