A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
To fix the ground where Paradise was placed;
Mind not their learned whims and idle talk;
Here, here’s the place where these bright angels walk.
A few random poems:
- Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known by William Wordsworth
- Birthday party blunder by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- On The Way To The Bottom by Shel Silverstein
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- Омар Хайям – Листья дерева жизни, отпущенной мне
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
- Darling Daughter of Babylon by Vachel Lindsay
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Метель
- Николай Карамзин – Филлиде
- Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
- Михаил Кузмин – Врач мудрый нам открыл секрет природы
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- A Kiss by Thomas Lux
- On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns
- I am the earthworm, Lord of the Underworld by Raj Arumugam
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
