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:
- Epitaph on John Busby, Esq., Tinwald Downs by Robert Burns
- The Minotaur by Ted Hughes
- Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew
- Ольга Седакова – Сказка
- Oh Stay At Home, My Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
- It Nods and Curtseys and Recovers poem – A. E. Housman
- Proud Music of The Storm by Walt Whitman
- Нина Воронель – Не слишком ли ты многого
- British Freedom by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns Country: O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day:
- Four Quartets 2: East Coker by T. S. Eliot
- Song. Murdering Beauty by Thomas Carew
- Year’s End by Weldon Kees
- Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow by William Shakespeare
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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
