A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest, who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years, slide soft away
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mixed; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
A few random poems:
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Василий Казин – Каменщик
- Владимир Высоцкий – Запись в книге почётных гостей ВНИИФТРИ
- In A Station Of The Metro poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Человек
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: The Menagerie
- Neighing at the Slope by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Rape of the Lock poem – Alexander Pope
- The Wolf and the Dog by William Somervile
- Farewell to London poem – Alexander Pope
- Song of Medical Dick and Medical Davy by Oliver St. John Gogarty
- Morning In The Hospital Solarium by Sylvia Plath
- Olney Hymn 66: I Will Praise The Lord At All Times by William Cowper
- A Father Out, An’ Mother Hwome by William Barnes
- Игорь Северянин – Синее
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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
