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:
- The Broomfield Hill poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (У вас в гостях бывать накладно)
- Loot by Rudyard Kipling
- Gamajun, the Prophetic Bird poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- A Question poem – Alfred Austin
- Forgotten by Priya Prithviraj
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Над синим мраком ночи длинной
- Алексей Толстой – Войдем сюда; здесь меж руин
- I Deserve It by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- Our Be’thplace by William Barnes
- A Bit O’ Fun by William Barnes
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Рожь
- Иван Бунин – Не видно птиц
- Владимир Вишневский – Тем, что в женщине разбудишь
- The Last Meeting by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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