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:
- Miss Drake Proceeds To Supper by Sylvia Plath
- Some One by Walter de la Mare
- Tori Soorat Kay Balihaari poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Watercolor Of Grantchester Meadows by Sylvia Plath
- The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- A Hand-Mirror. by Walt Whitman
- The Weather-Beaten Tree by William Barnes
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- In the Matter of One Compass by Rudyard Kipling
- Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
- Ольга Седакова – Из песни Данте
- Lover’s Gifts XXII: I Shall Gladly Suffer by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Улетевшим мечтам
- Николай Карамзин – Пророчество на 1799 год, найденное в бумагах Нострадамуса
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
