A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
In merry old England it once was the rule
The King had his poet and also his fool
But now were so frugal I have you to know it
That Cibber can serve both for fool and for poet!
A few random poems:
- Lips and Eyes. by Thomas Carew
- Lover’s Gifts XLVII: The Road Is by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Корнилов – Останкинская башня
- Somebody Has To by Shel Silverstein
- Presentiment poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Race of Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Глазков – Пятнадцать лет спустя
- Book Seventh [Residence in London] by William Wordsworth
- Buying leeks by Yosa Buson
- Old Ireland. by Walt Whitman
- Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew
- A Tale of Elsinore by William Topaz McGonagall
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 02 by Torquato Tasso
- Robert Burns: Her Answer:
- February 23
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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
