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:
- Вероника Тушнова – Знаешь ли ты, что такое горе
- David Cleek by Siegfried Sassoon
- Love And Death by Sara Teasdale
- Peddler Road Flyover by Vinita Agrawal
- Our Father’s Works by William Barnes
- Obdurant men, the worst of the abstinant by Miles
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Владимир Маяковский – Неделя охраны труда (РОСТА № 317)
- Кондратий Рылеев – Из письма к Булгарину
- Winter – The Fourth Pastoral, or Daphne poem – Alexander Pope
- Watching Unto God In The Night Season (2) by William Cowper
- Nothing Stays Put poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Николай Глазков – Баллада о трактористе и ритуальном камне
- Sealed Appropriate
- Владимир Набоков – К Родине
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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