A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade!
Scene of my youthful loves and happier hours!
Where the kind Muses met me as I stray’d,
And gently press’d my hand, and said “Be ours!-
Take all thou e’er shalt have, a constant Muse:
At Court thou may’st be liked, but nothing gain:
Stock thou may’st buy and sell, but always lose,
And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain.”

A few random poems:
- Жан де Лафонтен – Шершни и Пчелы
- Ольга Берггольц – Февральский дневник
- Further Instructions poem – Ezra Pound poems
- A Lesson In Vengeance by Sylvia Plath
- Life poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- Robert Burns: Elegy On Willie Nicol’s Mare:
- 1914 I: Peace by Rupert Brooke
- The Death Of A Fly by Russell Edson
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Watching the Bird Watcher by Richard Schiffman
- Epistle to James Smith by Robert Burns
- Гавриил Державин – На умеренность
- Not Speaking Of The Way poem – Yosano Akiko poems | Poetry Monster
- Flowers of Sion: Sonnet 3 – Look how the flower by William Drummond
- The Fall of Rome by W. H. Auden
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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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