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:
- Валерий Брюсов – К.Д. Бальмонту (Вечно вольный, вечно юный)
- Athor and Asar poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Маяковский – В РСФСР 130 миллионов населения (Агитплакаты)
- Ок Мельникова – Не в этот раз
- A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Haiku by Robby Charters
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
- In A Wood by Thomas Hardy
- EXISTENTIAL DILEMMMA by Satish Verma
- A Valentine’s Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Владимир Луговской – Баллада о пустыне
- From The Greek Of Julianus by William Cowper
- Алишер Навои – О таинствах любви
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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