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:
- Holy Thursday (Innocence) by William Blake
- The Settler by Rudyard Kipling
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- Василий Курочкин – Раздумье
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- Олег Сердобольский – Воробышек и крошки
- Audley Court poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- Goddess by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Седакова – Ангел Реймса
- The Death Of A Fly by Russell Edson
- On Mrs. Montague’s Feather Hangings by William Cowper
- The Infernal Regions
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
