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:
- I Have Loved Hours At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- Psalm 19: Coeli Enarrant by Sir Philip Sidney
- Владимир Высоцкий – Жизни после смерти нет
- Владимир Высоцкий – Лукоморья больше нет
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- If It Is True What the Prophets Write by William Blake
- Жан Расин – Решенье принято, час перемены пробил
- Before by Yehuda Amichai
- Омар Хайям – Моя любовь к тебе достигла совершенства
- How Soon Hath Time poem – John Milton poems
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
- Beguiling by Roger McGough
- Between The Wars by Robert Hass
- Listening To Rwanda Genocide by Satish Verma
- An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare poem – John Milton poems
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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