A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild;
In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child:
With native Humour temp’ring virtuous Rage,
Form’d to delight at once and lash the age:
Above Temptation, in a low Estate, 5
And uncorrupted, ev’n among the Great:
A safe Companion, and an easy Friend,
Unblam’d thro’ Life, lamented in thy End.
These are Thy Honours! not that here thy Bust
Is mix’d with Heroes, or with Kings thy dust; 10
But that the Worthy and the Good shall say,
Striking their pensive bosoms-Here lies GAY.
A few random poems:
- The Ladies by Rudyard Kipling
- Валерий Брюсов – Дрожащие листья на бледные щеки
- High School Crush by Roberto Cocina
- Николай Заболоцкий – Пир в доме Бомбеева
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Мелочи жизни
- Past One O’Clock … by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Centenarian’s Story, The. by Walt Whitman
- Степан Щипачев – Любовью дорожить умейте
- Villanelle: Oscar Victorius by T. Wignesan
- The useless counsellor by Ross D Tyler
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Дед-разиня, хитрая лиса и глупый волк
- Banishment by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
- A Welcome by William Browne
- Владимир Высоцкий – Марине
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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
