The merry waves dance up and down, and play,
Sport is granted to the sea;
Birds are the choristers of the empty air,
Sport is never wanting there.
The ground doth smile at the spring’s flowery birth,
Sport is granted to the earth;
The fire its cheering flame on high doth rear,
Sport is never wanting there,
If all the elements, the earth, the sea,
Air, and fire, so merry be,
Why is man’s mirth so seldom and so small,
Who is compounded of them all?

A few random poems:
- Reason The Use Of It In Divine Matters
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- For All We Have And Are by Rudyard Kipling
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- English Poetry. Thomas Moore. From “The Odes of Anacreon”. Ode 66. Томас Мур.
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Могила
- The Ring of Stars by Robert Desnos
- Олег Бундур – Счастливый
- A Man (In Memory of H. of M.) by Thomas Hardy
- I Call That True Love by Shel Silverstein
- Further Instructions poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Robert Burns: I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair: Alteration of an Old Poem.
- Олег Бундур – Барашки
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чудом тени
- Bards of Passion and of Mirth, written on the Blank Page before Beaumont and Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid of the Inn’ poem – John Keats poems
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
- Resolution And Independence by William Wordsworth
- Repentance by William Wordsworth
- Remembrance Of by William Wordsworth
- Power Of Music by William Wordsworth
- Picture of Daniel in the Lion’s Den at Hamilton Palace by William Wordsworth
- Personal Talk by William Wordsworth
- On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
- On The Final Submission Of The Tyrolese by William Wordsworth
- On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
- On the Departure of Sir Walter Scott from Abbotsford by William Wordsworth
- On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
- O’erweening Statesmen Have Full Long Relied by William Wordsworth
- O’er The Wide Earth, On Mountain And On Plain by William Wordsworth
- Ode by William Wordsworth
- Ode To Lycoris. May 1817 by William Wordsworth
- Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
- Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth
- October, 1803 by William Wordsworth
- Occasioned By The Battle Of Waterloo February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- O Nightingale! Thou Surely Art by William Wordsworth
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
Abraham Cowley (1618 – 1667), the Royalist Poet.Poet and essayist Abraham Cowley was born in London, England, in 1618. He displayed early talent as a poet, publishing his first collection of poetry, Poetical Blossoms (1633), at the age of 15. Cowley studied at Cambridge University but was stripped of his Cambridge fellowship during the English Civil War and expelled for refusing to sign the Solemn League and Covenant of 1644. In turn, he accompanied Queen Henrietta Maria to France, where he spent 12 years in exile, serving as her secretary. During this time, Cowley completed The Mistress (1647). Arguably his most famous work, the collection exemplifies Cowley’s metaphysical style of love poetry. After the Restoration, Cowley returned to England, where he was reinstated as a Cambridge fellow and earned his MD before finally retiring to the English countryside. He is buried at Westminster Abbey alongside Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser. Cowley is a wonderful poet and an outstanding representative of the English baroque.