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:
- The Pulling Away by Timothy Cole
- Огюст Барбье – Леонардо да Винчи
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- Николай Тихонов – Как след от весла
- Жан де Лафонтен – Астролог, упавший в колодец
- Abyss by Pierre Reverdy
- A Conjuration To Electra by Robert Herrick
- Sonnet 11
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Утренняя гимнастика
- Robert Burns: Lassie Wi’ The Lint-White Locks:
- Slag by Mark Base
- My Spouse Nancy by Robert Burns
- Ольга Берггольц – Осень (Мне осень озёрного края)
- gazebo.html
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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
