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:
- Robert Burns: Extempore On Some Commemorations Of Thomson:
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- True Love by Robert Penn Warren
- Olney Hymn 52: For The Poor by William Cowper
- Федор Сологуб – В моём бессилии люби меня
- Ольга Высотская – Здравствуй, праздник
- Илья Эренбург – Я так любил тебя, до грубых шуток
- Fortune poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Николай Карамзин – К Лиле
- Address spoken by Miss Fontenelle by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – О нашей встрече
- Владимир Высоцкий – Побег на рывок
- The Garden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To L. R. E. by Sara Teasdale
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