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:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Осел со священной ношей
- A Prayer in Spring by Robert Frost
- Olney Hymn 9: The Contrite Heart by William Cowper
- One Step Backward Taken by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For Mr. W. Cruikshank:
- Locations and Times. by Walt Whitman
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Nanny’s New Abode by William Barnes
- The Blind Man by Théophile Gautier
- Наум Коржавин – Поэзия не страсть, а власть
- Snow & Ice by Quincy Troupe
- My rains by Vinko Kalinic
- Олег Григорьев – Яма
- The Hollow Men by T. S. Eliot
- V by Tony Harrison
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
- The Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
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
