A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Two or three visits, and two or three bows,
Two or three civil things, two or three vows,
Two or three kisses, with two or three sighs,
Two or three Jesus’s; and let me dies-
Two or three squeezes, and two or three towses,
With two or three thousand pound lost at their houses,
Can never fail cuckolding two or three spouses.
A few random poems:
- Pan’s Lament by Rose Mary Boehm
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- The French Army In Russia, 1812-13 by William Wordsworth
- The Shepherd, Looking Eastward, Softly Said by William Wordsworth
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Олег Григорьев – Гений
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- For A Coming Extinction by W. S. Merwin
- Dirge For A Joker by Sylvia Plath
- Алексей Жемчужников – Осенью в швейцарской деревне
- Eternity by William Blake
- Alciphron and Leucippe by Walter Savage Landor
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 11 – The last and greatest herald by William Drummond
- On The Death Of Mr William Hervey
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.