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:
- In The Well poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
- The house where I was born (08) by Yves Bonnefoy
- To His Worthy Friend Doctor Witty Upon His Translation Of The Popular Errors poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Василий Тредиаковский – О коль мне тамо сладка веселия было
- Владимир Маяковский – Обряды кому и на кой ляд целовальный обряд
- On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Wreath For A Bridal by Sylvia Plath
- Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Whoever Comes From The Earth by Nelly Sachs
- From The Dark Chambers Of Dejection Freed by William Wordsworth
- Fire, Famine, And Slaughter : A War Eclogue by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Thalidomide by Sylvia Plath
- A Country Nosegay poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Набоков – Какое сделал я дурное дело
- Xai Kou1
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
- first_light.html
- excerpt_from_the_quotgertrude_steinquot_collaborative_series.html
- eudaemonism_in_a_senryu_novel.html
- drunkenness.html
- do_not_get_angry.html
- dickinson_and_the_alabaster_gogyohka.html
- dawned_again.html
- create.html
- conference_swan_beauty.html
- colors_and_sounds.html
- children039s_eyes.html
- athens_stone_of_sapphire_of_ground_the_ring.html
- as_with_recitation_and_the_loss_of_a_kuhi.html
- antediluvian_kural_on_twitter.html
- alexander.html
- acts_of_love.html
- a_single_man.html
- a_poem.html
- a_dialogue.html
- a_city_one_wish.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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The Poetry Repository – an online library of poems, poetry, verse and poetic works
