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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Запретный плод
- Written In The Cottage Where Burns Was Born poem – John Keats poems
- The Great Adventure Of Max Breuck poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вероника Тушнова – Я одна тебя любить умею
- Василий Тредиаковский – Будь жестока, будь упорна
- Sonnet XI. On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer poem – John Keats poems
- The Recall by Rabindranath Tagore
- Syed Amir
- Ольга Берггольц – Слепой
- Юлия Друнина – Да, сердце часто ошибалось
- Armies in the Fire by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Scratch by Raymond Carver
- A Celebration by William Carlos Williams
- Olney Hymn 53: My Soul Thirsteth For God by William Cowper
- Fragment. Where’s The Poet? poem – John Keats poems
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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