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:
- English Poetry. Richard Hovey. John Keats. Ричард Хави.
- Ольга Седакова – Сказочка
- Sonnet CVII by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мартовский Заяц
- Robert Burns: Apology For Declining An Invitation To Dine:
- Jilted by Sylvia Plath
- Омар Хайям – Есть много вер, и все несхожи
- Olney Hymn 63: Not Of Works by William Cowper
- My World Destroyed by Roberto Cocina
- Гавриил Державин – Надежда на бога
- Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 92: But do thy worst to steal thy self away by William Shakespeare
- The Nymph’s Reply To The Shepherd by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Ready for Retirement by Mike Yuan
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- boy_running_in_the_rain.html
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- xai_kou1.html
- xai_kou0.html
- xai_kou.html
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- victor.html
- traveling.html
- tracks_in_the_private_country.html
- the_world.html
- the_holy_tree.html
- the_emigrant.html
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
