A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
I.
How happy he, who free from care
The rage of courts, and noise of towns;
Contented breaths his native air,
In his own grounds.
II.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire,
Whose trees in summer yield him shade,
In winter fire.
III.
Blest! who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years slide swift away,
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day,
IV.
Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mix’d; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please,
With meditation.
V.
Thus let me live, unheard, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me dye;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lye.
A few random poems:
- Владимир Маяковский – Неделя охраны труда (РОСТА № 317)
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
- The Gift by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Gift by Sara Teasdale
- Lines on Meeting with Lord Daer by Robert Burns
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Lulu by Manolo Arriola
- Southern Song by Margaret Walker
- Before it is Time by Minal Sarosh
- Eclogue IV by Virgil
- The Wound by Robert McNamara
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- Last Invocation, The. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грустная песня о Ванечке
- Meditation by Radames Antonio Cruz
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
- Two Hundred Years After by Siegfried Sassoon
- Twelve Months After by Siegfried Sassoon
- Trench Duty by Siegfried Sassoon
- Tree and Sky by Siegfried Sassoon
- Together by Siegfried Sassoon
- Today by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Victory by Siegfried Sassoon
- To My Brother by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Leonide Massine in ‘Cleopatra’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- To His Dead Body by Siegfried Sassoon
- To Any Dead Officer by Siegfried Sassoon
- To a Very Wise Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- To a Childless Woman by Siegfried Sassoon
- Thrushes by Siegfried Sassoon
- ‘They’ by Siegfried Sassoon
- Their Frailty by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Tombstone-Maker by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road by Siegfried Sassoon
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
