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:
- The Maid O’ Newton by William Barnes
- Василий Жуковский – Торжество победителей
- Infant Joy by William Blake
- To Hope poem – John Keats poems
- A quiet storm by Victor A. Bueno M.
- The Tale of the Tiger-Tree by Vachel Lindsay
- As He Walks Away by Mahmoud Darwish
- I Thank You, Mum by Raj Napal
- Вера Павлова – Попытка не пытка
- Владимир Маяковский – Стихотворение это
- Аля Кудряшева – И кстати, еще бывает уездный гор
- Федор Сологуб – В камине пылания много
- The Judges Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Омар Хайям – Что плоть твоя, Хайям?
- Шекспир – Сонет 50
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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