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:
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Epistle to a Young Friend by Robert Burns
- Full of Life, Now. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Ермолаева – Ты где летал, мой падающий с Фанских гор
- In Praise of Songs that Die by Vachel Lindsay
- In Absence. by Sidney Lanier
- The Song of the Cheerful (but slightly sarcastic) Jesus by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein
- The Fairies’ Siege by Rudyard Kipling
- Daffodil Dreams by Vaishnavi Prakash
- In The Metropolitan Museum by Sara Teasdale
- Степан Щипачев – Лил дождь осенний
- Валерий Брюсов – Инкогнито
- Robert Burns: Poem On Pastoral Poetry :
- Низами Гянджеви – О кипарис с плавной поступью мри
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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
