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 Высоцкий – В Средней Азии безобразие
- Яков Полонский – После праздника
- The Fool Errant poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robin Redbreast by William Allingham
- Love and Folly by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Корнилов – Прямота
- Gwain To Feäir by William Barnes
- The Best Blues Songs Ever
- Final Soliloquy Of The Interior Paramour by Wallace Stevens
- A Thunderstorm In Town by Thomas Hardy
- Николай Карамзин – Из мелодрамы Петр Великий (Жил был в свете добрый царь)
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- The Passing Show poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Otho The Great – Act III poem – John Keats poems
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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