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:
- Where Have We All Gone by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking by the Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Высотская – Звёздочки
- Andante Con Moto by William Ernest Henley
- Олег Бундур – Что будет, если
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отторженность
- Poem Reaching For Something by Quincy Troupe
- Zoo-Keeper’s Wife by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Parting With A Kind Host In The Highlands:
- Arabian Night’s Entertainments by William Ernest Henley
- On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Солнце садится
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
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
- Spring by Ramesh Anand
- Remember the Tick by RD McManes
- re_word by RD McManes
- Rain by Reena Ribalow
- Carnal Knowledge by Rebecca Elson
- We Astronomers by Rebecca Elson
- This Morning by Raymond Carver
- Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year by Raymond Carver
- No Chance To A New Life by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Live for the moment, be in the present by Ramesh V Deshpande
- Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
- Jobless by Rashmi
- I’m not listening by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Flutter by Rashmi Sreekumar
- Fear by Raymond Carver
- Drinking While Driving by Raymond Carver
- Circulation by Raymond Carver
- Butterfly by Ramesh Anand
- Bobber by Raymond Carver
- Autumn by Ramesh Anand
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
