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:
- 1914 V: The Soldier by Rupert Brooke
- Why Do All Good Things Come To An End? by Michael Yuan
- Ruined World by Michael Yuan
- Николай Заболоцкий – Птичий двор
- Ярослав Смеляков – Здравствуй, Пушкин
- Ок Мельникова – Что рассказать?
- Нина Воронель – Суд современников не значит ни черта
- Ольга Ермолаева – Герасим Грачевник
- Even As A Dragon’s Eye That Feels The Stress by William Wordsworth
- Mrs Moon by Roger McGough
- Sow by Sylvia Plath
- Germs. by Walt Whitman
- Astrophel and Stella: XX by Sir Philip Sidney
- The Hwomestead A-Vell Into Hand by William Barnes
- Николай Глазков – Чингисхан, Батый, Аттила
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
