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:
- What Best I See In Thee. by Walt Whitman
- Sonnet 119: What potions have I drunk of Siren tears by William Shakespeare
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Parænesis To Prince Henry by William Alexander
- Юлия Друнина – В голом парке коченеют клёны
- A Walk by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnet Of Motherhood XXIV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Granny
- On Receiving Heyne’s Virgil From Mr. Hayley by William Cowper
- The Last Summer by Subhash Misra
- To A Castillan Song by Sara Teasdale
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- The Old Stone Cross by William Butler Yeats
- Dark spring by Yvor Winters
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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