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:
- Robert Burns: O Wert Thou In The Cauld Blast:
- Валерий Брюсов – Германия (отрывки)
- Николай Языков – А. И. Готовцевой (Влюблен я, дева-красота)
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- A Tribute to Dr. Murison by William Topaz McGonagall
- Владимир Маяковский – Про это
- An ode to you by Tanisha Avarsekar
- Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath
- A man went before a strange God by Stephen Crane
- To Independence by Tobias Smollett
- Василий Жуковский – К Нине (О Нина, о Нина)
- Street Song by Sylvia Plath
- Meadowsweet by William Allingham
- Николай Гербель – Зной
- Гавриил Державин – На рождение царицы Гремиславы
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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
