A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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:
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Альфред де Мюссе – Ночи
- Break of Day by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алишер Навои – Сердце взял мое сын мага
- Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford
- Out Of The Window poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Fall by William Barnes
- Sonnet Xiv
- Ольга Берггольц – О, наверное, он не вернётся
- Outsong in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
- The Dunciad: Book III. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
- Yankee Doodle by Vachel Lindsay
- Youth And The Pilgrim by Sara Teasdale
- one_almost_might.html
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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