A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
When other fair ones to the shades go down,
Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:
Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside,
And haunt the places where their honour died.

A few random poems:
- The Recall by Rudyard Kipling
- Divided Passion
- Николай Карамзин – Эпиграмма (Я знаю, для чего Крадон)
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Владимир Маяковский – Номер 17
- Федор Сваровский – Небесный гость в четыре лепестка
- Владимир Высоцкий – Звезды
- Betrayal poem – Alice Notley
- Terrible Ted poem – Alexander E. Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- To The King’s Most Excellent Majesty by Phillis Wheatley
- Олег Сердобольский – Облачко
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
- Шекспир – Что, если бы я право заслужил – Сонет 125
- The Pleasures Of Friendship by Stevie Smith
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне каждый вечер зажигают свечи
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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
Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.