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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Журнал “Крысодав”
- Forty Years Later by Martin Willitts, Jr
- When I read the Book. by Walt Whitman
- Вера Павлова – Вот и пришли времена
- “Yes! Thou Art Fair, Yet Be Not Moved” by William Wordsworth
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Плач
- To A Picture Of Eleanor Duse by Sara Teasdale
- Наум Коржавин – Ленинград
- The Editor’s Guests by Will McKendree Carleton
- Владимир Маяковский – Ров (РОСТА №181)
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Билла Сиггера
- Василий Жуковский – К Перовскому (Счастливец, ею ты любим)
- Learn Numbers With Fun Counting Rhymes For Kids
- The Tame Bird Was In A Cage by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lines Written under the Picture of Miss Burns by Robert Burns
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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
