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:
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
- Николай Карамзин – Impromptu графине Р, которой в одной святошной игре досталось быть королевою
- Personal Helicon by Seamus Heaney
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- Ein Yahav by Yehuda Amichai
- Владислав Крапивин – А по ночам у высокого плетня
- Ribblesdale poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- SOVEREIGNTY by Satish Verma
- Whiteness I Remember by Sylvia Plath
- Алишер Навои – О таинствах любви
- A Grace after Meat by Robert Burns
- Winter by Shaunna Harper
- The Stwonen Bwoy Upon The Pillar by William Barnes
- Василий Жуковский – Ахилл
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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
