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 The Bus
- Nikolai Gumilev –
- Forgotten Language by Shel Silverstein
- Николай Карамзин – Послание к Александру Алексеевичу Плещееву
- A Complaint by William Wordsworth
- Last News About The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Fifth Grade Autobiography by Rita Dove
- Владимир Маяковский – Чемпионат всемирной классовой борьбы
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Since you asked by Radames Antonio Cruz
- Twilight poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Poor Mailie’s Elegy:
- A Song of a Girl from Loyang by Wang Wei
- When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d. 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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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