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:
- Us Two by AA Milne
- Dedication by Wole Soyinka
- pathos_is_the_skyward_tanka.html
- Lesson In Grammar by Vernon Scannell
- I love you by Inganathi Ntantiso
- A Fragment poem – Alfred Austin
- Алишер Навои – Чаша, солнце отражая
- Stop Looking For Broken Heart Poems and Quotes and Win Your Ex Back Instead!
- Song Of Jasoda
- A Woman Waking by Philip Levine
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Свети мне, солнышко
- Владимир Высоцкий – Штормит весь вечер, и, пока
- Christmas Star by Walter William Safar
- Robert Burns: On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child: Born in peculiar circumstances of family distress.
- from Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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