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:
- Robert Burns: Out Over The Forth:
- Николай Глазков – Рассчитывая на успех
- By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Оплавляются свечи на старинный паркет
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Composed At The Same Time And On The Same Occasion by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Солоухин – Все смотрю
- Альфред Теннисон – Лорд Борлей
- Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тайна
- Такахама Кёси – Неспешно ступает
- Огюст Барбье – Любовь к песням
- They Thought Her Crazy by Mary Etta Metcalf
- In Westminster Abbey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Family Caregivers Have Promises to Keep
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
- Three Songs Of Zahir U Din
- Thoughts Mahomed Akram
- Though In My Firmament Thou Wilt Not Shine
- This Month The Almonds Bloom At Kandahar
- There Is No Breeze To Cool The Heat Of Love
- The Window Overlooking The Harbour
- The Tom Toms
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- The Teak Forest
- The Singer
- The River Of Pearls At Fez Translation
- The Rice Was Under Water
- The Rice Boat
- The Regret Of The Ranee In The Hall Of Peacocks
- The Rao Of Ilore
- The Plains
- The Net Of Memory
- The Masters
- The Lute Player Of Casa Blanca
- The Lament Of Yasmini The Dancing Girl
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