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:
- Огюст Барбье – Сегодня я в пути
- The Apparitions by William Butler Yeats
- To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Распутие
- Lyonnesse by Sylvia Plath
- Олег Сердобольский – Стой, кто идет
- Robert Burns: The Dean Of Faculty: A New Ballad
- Николай Карамзин – Истина
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Epitaph In Three Parts by Sylvia Plath
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Farewell to Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Recantation by Sylvia Plath
- A Fact, And An Imagination, Or, Canute And Alfred, On The Seashore by William Wordsworth
- The Fairies by William Allingham
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
- Portrait of Rage and Age poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- Introspection In Evening poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- For Fixation Who Loves Me Back poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- A March Afternoon poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- A February Night poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cat Perched on the Railing poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- What a Glow Everywhere I see – Aaj Rung Hai poem – with a translation Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Tori Soorat Kay Balihaari poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sakal Bun poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Persian Poem poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- O Wondrous Ecstatic Eyes – Chashmay Mastay poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Nami Danam… poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Mora Jobana (My Youth) poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Mohay Apnay Hi Rung Mein poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Man Kunto Maula poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Main to piya say naina lada aayi ray poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Khabaram raseed imshab poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Rains Have Come poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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
