A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
I know the thing that’s most uncommon;
(Envy be silent and attend!)
I know a Reasonable Woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a Friend.
Not warp’d by Passion, aw’d by Rumour,
Not grave thro’ Pride, or gay thro’ Folly,
An equal Mixture of good Humour,
And sensible soft Melancholy.
`Has she no Faults then (Envy says) Sir?’
Yes she has one, I must aver:
When all the World comspires to praise her,
The Woman’s deaf, and does not hear.

A few random poems:
- Epitaph On Mr. Bridgeman by William Strode
- Владимир Британишский – Ты шепчешь мне
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я не хочу, чтоб свет узнал
- Requiem for the Croppies by Seamus Heaney
- Ольга Берггольц – Разговор с соседкой
- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell
- Arabian Night’s Entertainments by William Ernest Henley
- I have fallen into unconsciousness by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Dresser, The. by Walt Whitman
- The Ballad of the King’s Mercy by Rudyard Kipling
- Humayun To Zobeida (From the Urdu) by Sarojini Naidu
- Robert Burns: Poem On Pastoral Poetry :
- Valhalla
- Аля Кудряшева – Когда наступает вечер
- Five Ways To Kill A Man poem – Andre Breton poems
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.