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:
- The Request
- София Парнок – Екатерине Гельцер
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка про прыгуна в длину
- The Gift by Rabindranath Tagore
- Corona by Paul Celan
- Constancy To An Ideal Object by Samuel Coleridge
- Владимир Костров – Срок настал, московская богема
- Robert Burns: Complimentary Versicles To Jessie Lewars: The Menagerie
- The Immortal Part poem – A. E. Housman
- Blow, Bugle, Blow poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Тексты “окон”, переработанные для сборника “Грозный смех”
- Михаил Кузмин – Утешение
- A Serenade poem – Alexander Pushkin
- On Death poem – John Keats poems
- “The flower, full blown, now bends the stalk, now breaks” poem – Alfred Austin
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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