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:
- Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn by William Shakespeare
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- From The Flats. by Sidney Lanier
- Иннокентий Анненский – Любовь к прошлому
- Have Lost You
- Юнна Мориц – Дрожащие губы и скрежет плаща
- Константин Бальмонт – Молитва последняя
- Eating Poetry by Mark Strand
- Bringen Woone Gwaïn O’ Zundays by William Barnes
- Blackberrying by Sylvia Plath
- Bobsled by Ruth Madievsky
- Her Anxiety by William Butler Yeats
- Hymn To Woden by William Lisle Bowles
- Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sonnet V
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
