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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Метель
- Fair Elanor by William Blake
- The Leädy’s Tower by William Barnes
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Юлия Друнина – Старый Крым
- Омар Хайям – Египет, Рим, Китай держи ты под пятой
- Юлия Друнина – Шторм
- What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Юрий Левитанский – Не брести мне сушею
- Robert Burns: I Love My Love In Secret:
- Thoughts in a Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий! (РОСТА №735)
- A Sure Sign by Georgi Ladonshchikov
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
- V: Some Verses: To The Author Parthenius by William Alexander
- To Prince Charles by William Alexander
- To his Majestie by William Alexander
- The Sonnet, The Lady, And The Prince by William Alexander
- The Roses And The Mothers Cannot Choose by William Alexander
- Sonet 58 by William Alexander
- Sonet 57 by William Alexander
- Sonet 56 by William Alexander
- Sonet 55 by William Alexander
- Sonet 54 by William Alexander
- Sonet 53 by William Alexander
- Sonet 52 by William Alexander
- Sonet 51 by William Alexander
- Sonet 50 by William Alexander
- Sonet 5 by William Alexander
- Sonet 49 by William Alexander
- Sonet 48 by William Alexander
- Sonet 47 by William Alexander
- Sonet 44 by William Alexander
- Sonet 43 by William Alexander
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.