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:
- Николай Гумилев – Маскарад
- The Unheeded Pageant by Rabindranath Tagore
- Forlorn, my love, no comfort here (Song) by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- Fragmentary Blue by Robert Frost
- Today by Satish Verma
- Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Нина Воронель – Одержимые
- Fast Anchor’d, Eternal, O Love. by Walt Whitman
- Mariana In The South poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- To Dorothy by Marvin Bell
- The Cloud by Sara Teasdale
- Шекспир – Ты утоляешь мой голодный взор – Сонет 75
- Sonnet CXXXIII by William Shakespeare
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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