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:
- The River by Sara Teasdale
- The Epic of Jack and Jill by Robby Charters
- Sonnet 108: What’s in the brain that ink may character by William Shakespeare
- On The Ice Islands Seen Floating In The German Ocean by William Cowper
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
- The Tollund Man by Seamus Heaney
- Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- Mr Anonymous, a life by Raj Arumugam
- Михаил Лермонтов – Арфа
- To Me by William Barnes
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 01 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- Ольга Берггольц – Два стихотворения дочерям
- Berck-Plage by Sylvia Plath
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
