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:
- Purple Heart Liz (My Girl At Woodstock) by Steve Sant
- Sonnet VI. To G. A. W. poem – John Keats poems
- Robert Burns: Lines Written In Friars’-Carse Hermitage:
- A Fairy Tale poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Memory of W. B. Yeats by W. H. Auden
- When I Met My Muse by William Stafford
- The Surgeon At 2 A.M. by Sylvia Plath
- Sculptor by Sylvia Plath
- Шекспир – Я лью потоки горьких слез – Сонет 44
- If You Ask Me by Miraj Patel
- A Curse for Kings by Vachel Lindsay
- The Freedom Of Poetry by Ndue Ukaj
- Old well by Yosa Buson
- Robert Burns: Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation:
- Владимир Маяковский – Приказ по армии искусства
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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
