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:
- Николай Карамзин – К Лиле
- Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge
- Resurgam
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Robert Graham, Esq., Of Fintry: Requesting a Favour
- The Hedger by William Barnes
- In the Blaze.. by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Just A Dance by Tiffany M
- Кондратий Рылеев – О милый друг, как внятен голос твой
- Translated from Geibel poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Commemoration of Rodney’s Victory by Robert Burns
- On Rabbi Kook’s Street by Yehuda Amichai
- When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer. by Walt Whitman
- The Temple of Fame poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Высоцкий – Всё с себя снимаю, слишком душно
- Sonnet 12
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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