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:
- A Photograph on the Desk by Mary Etta Metcalf
 - They won’t Know by Rifat Ilgaz
 - Wednesday by Marvin Bell
 - Владимир Маяковский – Про это
 - Владимир Степанов – Телефон (Буква Т)
 - The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
 - Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
 - Who is the Bogeyman? by Ross D Tyler
 - Николай Карамзин – Стихи на день рождения А. А. Плещеевой 14 октября
 - Robert Burns: A Grace Before Dinner, Extempore:
 - I Thought Of You by Sara Teasdale
 - Владимир Маяковский – Два не совсем обычных случая
 - Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that muse by William Shakespeare
 - Вера Павлова – Перед дальней дорогой
 - Федор Сологуб – Словно лепится сурепица
 
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
- Lynching
 - Kimchi
 - The Kingfisher poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Gradual Clearing poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Brought From Beyond poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Hairline Fracture poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Cure At Porlock poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
 - A Poem about Sauerkraut
 - Cabbage
 - Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Women’s Song Of The Corn poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Women’s Harvest Song poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - White Currants poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Vespers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Two Lacquer Prints poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Twenty-Four Hokku On A Modern Theme poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
 
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