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:
- Astrophel and Stella LXXXIV: HIGHWAY by Sir Philip Sidney
- Robert Burns: The Book-Worms:
- A Gogyohka and the Forgotten Panopticon
- The Conundrum of the Workshops by Rudyard Kipling
- Николай Заболоцкий – Летний вечер
- Song—A Lass wi’ a Tocher by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Октябрьский марш
- Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
- The Past is the Present by Marianne Moore
- La Regina Avrillouse poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Василий Тредиаковский – К почтению, льзя объявить любовь
- Duino Elegies: The First Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- The Other Half by Shaunna Harper
- Вера Павлова – Поколенье, лишённое почерка и походки
- Eco en la madrugada by Mara Romero Torres
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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
