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:
- Robert Burns: The Ordination : For sense they little owe to frugal Heav’n- To please the mob, they hide the little giv’n.
- A Winter Ride poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- O fortunatus nimium, etc., a translation out of Virgil by Abraham Cowley
- Social Amenities poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Aspirations by SAAJIDA GORA
- Михаил Кузмин – Запел петух, таинственный предвестник
- The Lent Lily poem – A. E. Housman
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Finale. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Carrion Comfort poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Юрий Коринец – О счастье
- Николай Карамзин – К неверной
- The Deep-Sea Cables by Rudyard Kipling
- Whispers of Heavenly Death. by Walt Whitman
- Poems from Makiwane poem – Amitabh Mitra poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Весенний дождь
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
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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
