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:
- From Far, From Eve and Morning poem – A. E. Housman
- “Beyond the pasture’s withered bents ” poem – Alfred Austin
- Джон Китс – Чаттертону
- Олег Бундур – Босиком
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- The Rose And The Bee by Sara Teasdale
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Sirens’ Song by William Browne
- The Heart’s House by Sara Teasdale
- Poor Mailie’s Elegy by Robert Burns
- At Algeciras; A Meditaton Upon Death by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот за то, что я пою… (Главполитпросвет №153)
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea by William Shakespeare
- Postscript by Seamus Heaney
- On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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
