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:
- Николай Огарев – Тебе я счастья не давал довольно
- Freedom And Love by Thomas Campbell
- Lately our poets by Walter Savage Landor
- “To fix her!-’twere a task as vain” by Tobias Smollett
- To Beatrice Stuart–Wortley Ætat poem – Alfred Austin
- Nube by Manolo Arriola
- Вера Павлова – Трогающему грудь
- The Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Sonnet: “It is not to be thought of” by William Wordsworth
- Sunshine by Vachel Lindsay
- Аля Кудряшева – Зима застыла среди теней
- Николай Карамзин – Рогатому человеку
- When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats
- Dulce Et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
- Mourning poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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
