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:
- C’est la nuit aveugle by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Алишер Навои – Кипарис подобен розе увлажненной
- Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Дед-разиня, хитрая лиса и глупый волк
- Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXXI poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Robert Burns: Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon:
- Владимир Британишский – Урочище
- The Rabbi’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- I’m Sexy and I Know It by Aiyah De Torres
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня про первые ряды
- Ольга Седакова – Старый поэт (Постскриптум)
- Near But Far Away by William Morris
- Lover’s Gifts IV: She Is Near to My Heart by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Canadian Winter by Mike Yuan
- CAESAR’S LAST BREATH by MICHAEL SALCMAN
- Birthday Love Song by Miraj Patel
- Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
- Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
- Bang-Bang by Mikey D Wentworth
- Baltimore Was Always Blue by Michael Salcman
- Awakening by mike yuan
- At the Kitslano Beach by Mike Yuan
- Artery by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Application For A Driving License by Michael Ondaatje
- Apologize by Miraj Patel
- Admiration of the Peach and the Light by Miles
- A Domestic Dialogue by Mike Yuan
- 19-19 by Michelle Bonczek Evory
- Leopard by Stanley Wilkin
- YOU by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
- Woman Work by Maya Angelou
- When You Come by Maya Angelou
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
