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:
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Ольга Берггольц – Анна Ахматова в 1941 году в Ленинграде
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- The Princess: A Medley: Thy Voice is Heard poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Tam Glen:
- Late Evening Song by Weldon Kees
- Muttering by Satish Verma
- Sonnet LXIX by William Shakespeare
- Serendipity by Seema Gupta
- Eclogues by Thomas Chatterton
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Чувство
- On Chloris requesting a sprig of blossom’d thorn by Robert Burns
- The missing pen by Ross D Tyler
- Николай Карамзин – Часто здесь в юдоли мрачной
- Man Kunto Maula poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
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 Hosts
- 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
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