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:
- Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
- Sleep by Russell Edson
- Again
- Омар Хайям – Не оплакивай, смертный, вчерашних потерь
- Гавриил Державин – На выздоровление мецената
- Михаил Лермонтов – Беглец
- My Daughter by Preeth Nambiar
- Money by William Henry Davies
- Robert Burns: Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon:
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Высоцкий – Лукоморья больше нет
- Вера Полозкова – Мало ли кто
- Алексей Ржевский – Рок все теперь свершил, надежды больше нет
- Олег Сердобольский – Зимний кот
- Meäry Wedded by William Barnes
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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
