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:
- An Epitaph On Sr John Walter, Lord Cheife Baron by William Strode
- The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing by William Wordsworth
- The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Grammer’s Shoes by William Barnes
- Cloris, it is not thy disdaine by Sidney Godolphin
- Song Of Four Faries poem – John Keats poems
- Words by William Butler Yeats
- let’s love the lawn by Raj Arumugam
- Dedication To The Edition Of 1876 To H.J.A. poem – Alfred Austin
- Manifesto for your smile and my songs by Vinko Kalinic
- Answer To Stanzas Addressed To Lady Hesketh By Miss Catharine Fanshawe, In Returning A Poem by William Cowper
- Emperors And Kings, How Oft Have Temples Rung by William Wordsworth
- little teddy bear lost by Raj Arumugam
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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
