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:
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Love thy Country and Do a useful Act – Gurazada by Vijay Narayana Chilaka
- Prelude by Rudyard Kipling
- “According to the Mighty Working” by Thomas Hardy
- My Heart Is Heavy by Sara Teasdale
- The Beggar’s Valentine by Vachel Lindsay
- Ольга Ермолаева – За Волгой, ударившись озем
- Федор Сологуб – Лиловато-розовый закат
- Олег Григорьев – Угро
- To Elizabeth Ward Perkins poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Road That Runs Beside The River by Thomas Lux
- Untitled I by Yunus Emre
- Mae Marsh, Motion Picture Actress by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка для шахтера-друга про шахтерки, чуни и каменный уголь
- To The Nameless Soldier
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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
