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:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- Annus Memorabilis : Written in Commemoration of His Majesty’s Happy Recovery by William Cowper
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- In Memory Of Alfred Pollexfen by William Butler Yeats
- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: A Stanza Added In A Mason Lodge:
- Омар Хайям – Не выращивай в сердце печали росток
- Esteem for Chloris by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – В зоологическом музее
- An Epistle to A Friend
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems
- On Recollection by Phillis Wheatley
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
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
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- To Prince Charles by William Alexander
- To his Majestie by William Alexander
- The Sonnet, The Lady, And The Prince by William Alexander
- The Roses And The Mothers Cannot Choose by William Alexander
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- Sonet 57 by William Alexander
- Sonet 56 by William Alexander
- Sonet 55 by William Alexander
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- Sonet 53 by William Alexander
- Sonet 52 by William Alexander
- Sonet 51 by William Alexander
- Sonet 50 by William Alexander
- Sonet 5 by William Alexander
- Sonet 49 by William Alexander
- Sonet 48 by William Alexander
- Sonet 47 by William Alexander
- Sonet 44 by William Alexander
- Sonet 43 by William Alexander
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
