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:
- Savour Your Life by Ronald G. Auguste
- Гавриил Державин – На возвращение графа Зубова из Персии
- The Man Into Whose Yard You Should Not Hit Your Ball by Thomas Lux
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заказал я два коктейля
- Sure Hit Songwriter’s Pen by Shel Silverstein
- Иван Крылов – Ода, выбранная из псалма 14-го
- An Image From A Past Life by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – На острове необитаемом
- Олег Григорьев – Сказал я девушке кротко
- The Broncho That Would Not Be Broken by Vachel Lindsay
- Ode On The Pleasure Arising From Vicissitude by Thomas Gray
- Владимир Маяковский – Для чего оттягивают паны мириться?.. (РОСТА №264)
- O fortunatus nimium, etc., a translation out of Virgil by Abraham Cowley
- Николай Языков – А. А. Елагину (Была прекрасна, весела…)
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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
