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:
- Mary’s Son by Rudyard Kipling
- Владимир Британишский – Как турмалин, что субстанцию сланца
- Robert Burns: Wandering Willie: Revised Version
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ночное гулянье
- Martin’s Tide by William Barnes
- The Fairy’s Gift poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Blue-Eyed Ann by Tobias Smollett
- Владимир Британишский – Инициалы: Д.Я
- The Highland Broach by William Wordsworth
- Jewels by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Маяковский – Победой увенчав Октябрьский бой… (Главполитпросвет №364)
- A Veterans Memories Breeze By In the Wind by Stacey Chillemi
- Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
- Screw-Guns by Rudyard Kipling
- Love Compared To A Game Of Tables by William Strode
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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