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:
- My Springs by Sidney Lanier
- El Cafetal by Rafael Guillen
- Fragments by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Посмотрим сами, покажем им
- Николай Гумилев – Левин, Левин, ты суров
- The Plantster’s Vision poem – John Betjeman poems
- Echo by Thomas Moore
- Readen Ov A Head-Stwone by William Barnes
- Ode to Mother Nature by Walter William Safar
- Robert Burns: On Chloris Being Ill:
- Robert Burns: The Gowden Locks Of Anna:
- Владимир Корнилов – Арена
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 34. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- 71 Ways For A Writer To Make Money
- Николай Языков – Вечер (Прохладен воздух был)
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
