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:
- Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
- Priorities of Life and Death
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- Ape And Coffee by Russell Edson
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet 26: Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage by William Shakespeare
- The Kiss: A Dialogue by Robert Herrick
- Аля Кудряшева – Если ты, к примеру, кролик с шелковистыми ушами
- The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
- Жан Расин – Британик
- Константин Бальмонт – Молитва последняя
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
- The More Loving One by W. H. Auden
- Sonnet 46: Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war by William Shakespeare
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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
