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:
- Владимир Орлов – Цветное молоко
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Молитва
- Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith
- The Huntsmen by Walter de la Mare
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- Mother’s Love by Nin Andrews
- Robert Burns: Young Jamie, Pride Of A’ The Plain:
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- A Cross-Road Epitaph poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Song Of Eternity In Time by Sidney Lanier
- A VOW TO VENUS by Robert Herrick
- The Bird Has Vanished by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Владимир Степанов – Почему не спят котята?
- Have Lost You
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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