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:
- Numbers and the Bible
- Олег Григорьев – Пьет оса кисель из чашки
- Альфред Теннисон – Смерть Старого Года
- Владимир Британишский – Кипренский. Портрет С.С. Уварова 1816 год
- Parliament Hill Fields by Sylvia Plath
- Михаил Лермонтов – Война
- There is a Candle in your Heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- L’Allegro poem – John Milton poems
- Loud Silence by Preethi Saravanakumar
- Icicles round a Tree in Dumfriesshire by Ruth Padel
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 51: Thus can my love excuse the slow offence by William Shakespeare
- To A Feminist
- Humankind – How Limitless In Genius by Michael Levy
- Celia Beeding, To the Surgeon by Thomas Carew
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
- A Journey Through The Moonlight by Russell Edson
- Antimatter by Russell Edson
- A Stone Is Nobody’s by Russell Edson
- Counting Sheep by Russell Edson
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- Paying The Captain by Russell Edson
- Grass by Russell Edson
- Angels by Russell Edson
- Ape by Russell Edson
- Hands by Russell Edson
- The Fall by Russell Edson
- The Family Monkey by Russell Edson
- Elephant Dormitory by Russell Edson
- Conjugal by Russell Edson
- A Historical Breakfast by Russell Edson
- The Essay on Liberty by Abraham Cowley
- Hauntings by Rupert Brooke
- Goddess In The Wood, The by Rupert Brooke
- Flight by Rupert Brooke
- Finding by Rupert Brooke
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
