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:
- Иван Демьянов – Одежкин домик
- Far Pitched Tents: Poems of War by Michael Nikoletseas
- lines_and_squares.html
- Laughter In The Senate by Sidney Lanier
- Ghosts by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Virginibus Puerisque
- A Carol of Harvest, for 1867 by Walt Whitman
- Михаил Лермонтов – Чаша жизни
- Evening Love Song by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Ольга Берггольц – Анна Ахматова в 1941 году в Ленинграде
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- Алексей Плещеев – На память
- The Instructor by Rudyard Kipling
- did you die, Ophelia? by Raj Arumugam
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