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:
- Cloudy Sky by Shel Silverstein
- Sonnet Xiv
- The Vier-Zide by William Barnes
- Notice What This Poem Is Not Doing by William Stafford
- Shema by Primo Levi
- Poet’s Corner poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Тютчев – А.А. Фету (Тебе сердечный мой поклон)
- Вера Звягинцева – Карусель
- Николай Гумилев – Мадагаскар
- Olney Hymn 26: On Opening A Place For Social Prayer by William Cowper
- I a soul by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The Rainy Day by Rabindranath Tagore
- Give Me Women, Wine, and Snuff poem – John Keats poems
- I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
- Answers by Mark Strand
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
