A poem by Alan Dugan
I know but will not tell
you, Aunt Irene, why there
are soap suds in the whiskey:
Uncle Robert had to have
A drink while shaving.

A few random poems:
- Olney Hymn 50: The Christian by William Cowper
- Алишер Навои – Луна в носилках, о постой
- Army Headquarters by Rudyard Kipling
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
- Christmas Oratio by W H Auden
- Grief An’ Gladness by William Barnes
- The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- Afraid of rabbit HOLE by Neelam Sinha
- Two Lovers And A Beachcomber By The Real Sea by Sylvia Plath
- Battle-Scene From the Comic Operatic Fantasy The Seafarer by Sylvia Plath
- Advice To A Girl by Sara Teasdale
- Marsh Hymns by Sidney Lanier
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.