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:
- The Choice by William Butler Yeats
- Ballades III – Of Blue China poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Николай Гумилев – Кенгуру
- Василий Жуковский – К кн. Вяземскому и В.Л.Пушкину
- Baseball and Writing by Marianne Moore
- The House Of Dreams by Sara Teasdale
- Anecdote For Fathers by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бегун морей дорогою безбрежной
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- The Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
- The Lantern Out Of Doors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- Among the Multitude. by Walt Whitman
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
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- boy_running_in_the_rain.html
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- xai_kou1.html
- xai_kou0.html
- xai_kou.html
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- victor.html
- traveling.html
- tracks_in_the_private_country.html
- the_world.html
- the_holy_tree.html
- the_emigrant.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
Alan Dugan (1923 – 2003) an American poet, a contemporary classic of American poetry.