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:
- An Improvisation For Angular Momentum poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Григорьев – Жена торговала колбасой
- Overnight at the Riverside Tower by Tu Fu
- The Dying Prince
- Robert Burns: On Chloris Being Ill:
- Reply to a Trimming Epistle, received from a Tailor by Robert Burns
- The Tree by Sara Teasdale
- Butterfly by Ramesh Anand
- Robert Burns: Behold, My Love, How Green The Groves:
- The Fairies Break Their Dances poem – A. E. Housman
- Ольга Седакова – Маленькое посвящение Владимиру Ивановичу Хвостину
- Федор Сологуб – Забыв о счастьи, о весельи
- All-Accomplished Rover by William Somervile
- Beyond Darkness And Despair by Renu Ayyar
- Алексей Толстой – Слова для мазурки
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
