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 121: Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed by William Shakespeare
- Федор Сологуб – Словами горькими надменных отрицаний
- Looking Across The Fields And Watching The Birds Fly by Wallace Stevens
- A Late Lark Twitters From The Quiet Skies by William Ernest Henley
- Inexpensive Progress poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- On Observing Some Names Of Little Note Recorded In The Biographia Britannica by William Cowper
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Insolent Storm Strikes At The Skull by Sylvia Plath
- Николай Языков – Элегия (Поденщик, тяжело навьюченный дровами)
- Олег Бундур – Умный кот
- At Night poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 23 poem – John Milton poems
- A Cooking Egg by T. S. Eliot
- At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Луговской – Фотограф
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
- Total Recount by Pamela Griffiths
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- The Uses of the Eye by Paul Blackburn
- The Undeniable Pressure of Existence by Patricia Fargnoli
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- The Sea and the Shadow by Paul Blackburn
- The Rising and Falling of Trees by Patricia Fargnoli
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- The Mother by Patrick Pearse
- The Choice of Trees by P.J.Reed
- The Café Filtre by Paul Blackburn
- The Blue Guitar by P. K. Page
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- Teenager by Patrick Connors
- Teasing by Pamela Griffiths
- Summon Me by Walid Saba
- Stony Grey Soil by Patrick Kavanagh
- Spring Thing by Paul Blackburn
- Single Traveller by P. K. Page
- Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
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
