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:
- Natural History by Sylvia Plath
- How Sweet I Roam’d by William Blake
- Robert Burns: The Bonie Wee Thing:
- Иван Дмитриев – Шарлатан
- The Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Николай Гумилев – Живала Ниагара
- Владимир Маяковский – Долой мешечников (РОСТА №525)
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- The One Night Stand : An Approach to the Bridge by Paul Blackburn
- Владимир Британишский – В Прикаспии
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Стефан Малларме – Устав от горького бездействия и лени
- Владимир Высоцкий – Пародия на плохой детектив
- Changes by William Barnes
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
