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:
- Epitaph On Mr. Bridgeman by William Strode
- Intrigued with Evening by Jelaluddin Rumi
- Morning Midday And Evening Sacrifice poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Maudlin by Sylvia Plath
- In a Minor Key poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet CXXXI by William Shakespeare
- Наум Коржавин – Друзьям
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Свети мне, солнышко
- Dedication To M… by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Looking In The Fire
- The Bayadere
- Smiling Buddha by Satish Verma
- Blind by Siegfried Sassoon
- Morning Song in the Jungle by Rudyard Kipling
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