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:
- From The ‘Antigone’ by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: On My Ever Honoured Father:
- The Chant of the Indignant of the World by Sunil Sharma
- A Wintry Picture poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Били раз… (РОСТА №631)
- When I’m among a Blaze of Lights by Siegfried Sassoon
- On King Arthur’s Round Table at Winchester by Thomas Warton
- Dedication by Wole Soyinka
- Владимир Степанов – Енот (Буква Е)
- Eden in Winter by Vachel Lindsay
- Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Джон Китс – Дуралейная песня
- THE WARS by Satish Verma
- Epigram on Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Будь все добро мое кирпич один, в кружало
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
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
