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:
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
- The Olympic Girl poem – John Betjeman poems
- Robert Burns: Charlie, He’s My Darling:
- The gypsy song by Sunil Sharma
- Николай Языков – А. Н. Татаринову (Здорово, брат! Поставь сюда две чаши)
- Владимир Степанов – Тула-город мастеров
- Note to Mr. Renton of Lamerton by Robert Burns
- The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
- Sepukku
- Autumn – The Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Mystic Trumpeter, The. by Walt Whitman
- The Shadowy Waters: The Harp of Aengus by William Butler Yeats
- Валерий Брюсов – Из-за облака скользящий
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- The Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda, La Muerta
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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