A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
So when Curll’s Stomach the strong Drench o’ercame,
(Infus’d in Vengenance of insulted Fame)
Th’ Avenger sees, with a delighted Eye,
His long Jaws open, and his Colour fly;
And while his Guts the keen Emeticks urge,
Smiles on the Vomit, and enjoys the Purge.

A few random poems:
- In Praise of Songs that Die by Vachel Lindsay
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Green Rock, Winthrop Bay by Sylvia Plath
- Humankind – How Limitless In Genius by Michael Levy
- Алексей Жемчужников – Забудь их шумное волненье
- Robert Burns: The Captive Ribband:
- Ghazal by Agha Shahid Ali
- Easter, 1916 by William Butler Yeats
- Нина Воронель – Не слишком ли ты многого
- Владимир Маяковский – Разве у вас не чешутся обе лопатки
- Олег Бундур – Кто идет?
- AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Маяковский – Про гидру контрреволюции сегодня сказ (РОСТА № 79)
- An Ode to Beer
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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