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:
- Bill ‘Awkins by Rudyard Kipling
- Bituminous? by Shel Silverstein
- A Shakespeare Memorial poem – Alfred Austin
- Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
- In Answer to a Request poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief by William Shakespeare
- Epigram on Miss Davies by Robert Burns
- To The Don poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Past One O’Clock … by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Dahin
- Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? by William Shakespeare
- Thoughts On The Works Of Providence by Phillis Wheatley
- Into The Twilight by William Butler Yeats
- Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
