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:
- Near The Wall Of A House by Yehuda Amichai
- Зинаида Александрова – Ветер на речке
- The Welshnut Tree by William Barnes
- Нина Воронель – Юбилей в доме литераторов
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ольга Седакова – Три богини
- Шекспир – Люби другого – Сонет 139
- Владимир Маяковский – Постоял здесь, мотнулся туда
- The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Некрасов – Великодушный поступок
- Sonnet CIX by William Shakespeare
- Hobbinol; or The Rural Games – Canto 2 by William Somervile
- Gravelly Run poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Предостережение
- Владимир Британишский – Композитор
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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
