A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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:
- A-Haulen O’ The Corn by William Barnes
- The Only One I Can’t Live Without, Its You by Miraj Patel
- Федор Сологуб – Ландыш пленительный
- Dreams Beauty
- Put Something In by Shel Silverstein
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- Юнна Мориц – Трудно светиться и петь не легко
- The Falling Of The Leaves by William Butler Yeats
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Маяковский – Вместо 2 280 товарных вагонов… (РОСТА №920)
- Sonnet 124: If my dear love were but the child of state by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Дом в цветах
- The Boat by Rabindranath Tagore
- Pride and Fury by Mahmoud Darwish
- Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
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 Hosts
- 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
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