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:
- Омар Хайям – Душой ты безбожник с Писаньем в руке
- At This Very Moment by Mary TallMountain
- I see the Four-fold Man by William Blake
- Whatif by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня солдата на часах
- Аля Кудряшева – Ну что я могу ответить
- Evolution by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, как весело листья летят
- Women And Roses by Robert Browning
- Владимир Британишский – Ладожский канал
- The Gods of the Copybook Headings by Rudyard Kipling
- Delicate Cluster. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Григорьев – Не свались в колодец, Ольга
- My Eyes in the Time of Apparition by Rachel McKibbens
- Age by Robert Creeley
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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
