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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Кудри
- Юрий Левитанский – Грач над березовой чащей
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ель и берёза
- The Monkey by Shel Silverstein
- Sealed Appropriate
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
- A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
- Николай Глазков – Без поражений нет побед
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- In Tara’s Halls by William Butler Yeats
- On The Death Of A Young Lady Of Five Years Of Age by Phillis Wheatley
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня о планах
- Drink To Her by Thomas Moore
- Robert Burns: Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves:
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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
