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:
- Robert Burns: Verses On Captain Grose: Written on an Envelope, enclosing a Letter to Him.
- Nicholas Nye by Walter de la Mare
- Ring Out Your Bells by Sir Philip Sidney
- Шекспир – У бедной музы красок больше нет – Сонет 103
- Wild Dark Love Song by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Карамзин – Соломонова мудрость, или мысли, выбранные из Экклезиаста
- Epic by Patrick Kavanagh
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Не касайся моих чертежей
- Sonnet CXXX by William Shakespeare
- Bathed in War’s Perfume. by Walt Whitman
- Геннадий Айги – БЕЗ НАЗВАНИЯ
- Oblivion by Satish Verma
- His Last Request to Julia by Robert Herrick
- Ольга Берггольц – Заметь, заметь, Как легчает сердце
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
- Alicante Lullaby by Sylvia Plath
- Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
- Study in Hands by Théophile Gautier
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- Last Wish by Théophile Gautier
- Work and Play by Ted Hughes
- Wind by Ted Hughes
- Tractor by Ted Hughes
- Thrushes by Ted Hughes
- Thistles by Ted Hughes
- The Warm and the Cold by Ted Hughes
- The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes
- The Owl by Ted Hughes
- The Minotaur by Ted Hughes
- The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes
- The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child by Ted Hughes
- September by Ted Hughes
- Pied Beauty by Ted Hughes
- Old Age Gets Up by Ted Hughes
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
