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:
- The Curse Of Cromwell by William Butler Yeats
- William Strode – William Strode
- Михаил Кузмин – Возможно ль: скоро четверть века
- In Paths Untrodden. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Набоков – Расстрел
- My World Destroyed by Roberto Cocina
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
- Iceland First Seen by William Morris
- The Two Thieves; Or, The Last Stage Of Avarice by William Wordsworth
- Robert Burns: The Epitaph:
- Hush’d be the Camps To-day. by Walt Whitman
- Николай Огарев – Предисловие к колоколу
- Вероника Тушнова – Я поднимаюсь по колючим склонам
- Sonnet CLI by William Shakespeare
- Зинаида Александрова – Топотушки
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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