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:
- Степан Щипачев – У моря
- Highway to Happiness by Stacey Chillemi
- A World So Different by Mary Etta Metcalf
- In the Forest of Life by Mike Yuan
- Life Is Motion by Wallace Stevens
- There is a Way by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Олег Сердобольский – Играли в шахматы слоны
- Sonnet 142: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Степанов – Ослик
- Robert Burns: Frae The Friends And Land I Love:
- Sonnet 140: Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press by William Shakespeare
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
- The First Jasmines by Rabindranath Tagore
- Youth
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
