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:
- Омар Хайям – Неправ, кто думает, что бог неумолим
- Lover’s Gifts LII: Tired of Waiting by Rabindranath Tagore
- Colors by Shel Silverstein
- Валерий Брюсов – Из песен Мальдуна
- Robert Burns: John Anderson, My Jo:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы в огне да и в море вовеки не сыщете брода
- William Henry Davies
- A Translation Of The Nightingale Out Of Strada by William Strode
- States! by Walt Whitman
- Юлия Друнина – Дочери
- A Morning Letter by Stevens Cadet
- Олег Бундур – Обновки
- I Awake and Choose To Live by P.J.Reed
- Madeira From The Sea by Sara Teasdale
- Eclogue:–Come And Zee Us In The Zummer by William Barnes
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 Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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