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:
- Новелла Матвеева – Двое (Баллада)
- To His Honour the Lieutenant-Governor by Phillis Wheatley
- Epitaph by Sir Walter Raleigh
- The End by Sharon Olds
- Skunk Hour by Robert Lowell
- Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 2 by Robert Burns
- Омар Хайям – Кто розу нежную любви привил
- Oh could my Mind
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (Когда душа изнемогала)
- Twilight Acts of Decadence. by Michael Levy
- Robert Burns: Mally’s Meek, Mally’s Sweet:
- Orlando Furioso Canto 22 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Как сегодня тихо в классе
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Семик
- Альфред де Мюссе – Намуна
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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
