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:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Леля
- Ольга Берггольц – Надежда
- Василий Жуковский – Тоска по милом
- Racial Memories of a Chickadee by Todd H. C. Fischer
- Николай Заболоцкий – Ласточка
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Historion poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Elegy VII. Anno Aetates Undevigesimo (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- The Best Blues Songs Ever
- Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare
- Аля Кудряшева – Трилогия перед годом (Цепочка ассоциаций)
- The Monastery Of Life by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- One Whisper of the Beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Sleep
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