A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
‘Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,
The sound must seem an echo to the sense:
Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows,
And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;
But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,
The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar;
When Ajax strives some rock’s vast weight to throw,
The line too labors, and the words move slow;
Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain,
Flies o’er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Hear how Timotheus’ varied lays surprise,
And bid alternate passions fall and rise!
A few random poems:
- Life by Sarojini Naidu
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- The Rhyme of the Three Sealers by Rudyard Kipling
- My Highland Lassie, O by Robert Burns
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Элегия (Мысль в разлуке с вещим сном)
- Такахама Кёси – Мимо порта родного
- Ballade Of Cleopatra’s Needle poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чувство
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Bearhug by Michael Ondaatje
- Robert Burns: Their Groves O’Sweet Myrtle :
- The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin
- Алексей Толстой – Шумит на дворе непогода
- Ольга Берггольц – О, наверное, он не вернётся
- Fear by Vinko Kalinić
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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
