A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
With scornful mien, and various toss of air,
Fantastic vain, and insolently fair,
Grandeur intoxicates her giddy brain,
She looks ambition, and she moves disdain.
Far other carriage grac’d her virgin life,
But charming G–y’s lost in P–y’s wife.
Not greater arrogance in him we find,
And this conjunction swells at least her mind:
O could the sire renown’d in glass, produce
One faithful mirror for his daughter’s use!
Wherein she might her haughty errors trace,
And by reflection learn to mend her face:
The wonted sweetness to her form restore,
Be what she was, and charm mankind once more!
A few random poems:
- By the Hoof of the Wild Goat by Rudyard Kipling
- A Night With Passion! by Stevens Cadet
- To Foreign Lands. by Walt Whitman
- A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Николай Карамзин – Триолет Алете в тот день, как ей исполнилось 14 лет
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
- Иван Бунин – Ночлег
- Валерий Брюсов – И снова дрожат они, грезы бессильные
- Владимир Бенедиктов – К точкам
- Михаил Ломоносов – Молчите, струйки чисты
- Anecdote Of The Jar by Wallace Stevens
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Люблю я сельский мой приют
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Омар Хайям – Благородство страданием, друг, рождено
- Шекспир – А это смерть – Сонет 64
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
- A Florida Ghost. by Sidney Lanier
- A Dedication. To Charlotte Cushman. by Sidney Lanier
- A Birthday Song. To S. G. by Sidney Lanier
- A Ballad Of The Trees And The Master by Sidney Lanier
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Triumph by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sassoon’s Public Statement Of Defiance by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Solar Eclipse by Siegfried Sassoon
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- Prelude: The Troops by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- On Passing The New Menin Gate 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
