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:
- An English Breeze by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Slumber-Song by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Талисман
- Владимир Корнилов – Державинское
- Scots Prologue for Mr. Sutherland by Robert Burns
- The King of Yellow Butterflies by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Орлов – Белые стихи о черном пуделе
- Rimini by Rudyard Kipling
- Essay On The Personal by Stephen Dunn
- Sonnet 114: Or whether doth my mind, being crowned with you by William Shakespeare
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- The Woman Of His Dreams by Talha Jafri
- Sweethearts by Mary Gilmore
- Twelve Years by Paul Celan
- Shall I like An Eternal World by Nithin Purple
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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
