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:
- Illusion by Mercedes Madrigal
- Say, What Is Honour?–‘Tis The Finest Sense by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: On A Suicide:
- Федор Сологуб – Лиловато-розовый закат
- The Kerry Cow by Winifred Mary Letts
- Огюст Барбье – Кьяйя
- Николай Языков – Вечер (Прохладен воздух был)
- Polyphemus poem – Alfred Austin
- Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист
- The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Bare Tongue by Satish Verma
- Джон Донн – Ворожба над портретом
- The Mower To The Glo-Worms poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
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
