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:
- Blood And The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- William Strode – William Strode
- Аля Кудряшева – Тяжело деревьям зимой
- Making It Work by Philip Levine
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Woodchucks by Maxine Kumin
- Ольга Берггольц – Кирову
- Epitaph for Mr. Walter Riddell by Robert Burns
- From My Last Years. by Walt Whitman
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Карамзин – Соломонова мудрость, или мысли, выбранные из Экклезиаста
- Владимир Маяковский – Жид
- Владимир Костров – Я стою, как дерево в лесу
- Владимир Маяковский – Чтоб жизнь трудовую наладить заново
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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