A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Here, shunning idleness at once and praise,
This radiant pile nine rural sisters raise;
The glittering emblem of each spotless dame,
Clear as her soul and shining as her frame;
Beauty which nature only can impart,
And such a polish as disgraces art;
But Fate disposed them in this humble sort,
And hid in deserts what would charm a Court.

A few random poems:
- On Time poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Ни знахарство, ни благодать бога в болезни не подмога
- Омар Хайям – Есть много вер, и все несхожи
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- Messalina poem – Alfred Austin
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Arms and the Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Напоминание
- Константин Бальмонт – Электрон
- A Crazed Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Know, Celia, Since Thou Art So Proud by Thomas Carew
- “And Is It Among Rude Untutored Dales” by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Британишский – Но особенно снился мне вздыбленный мост
- Sonnet CXXXIV by William Shakespeare
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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