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:
- Waking at 3 a.m. by William Stafford
- Astrophel And Stella-Sonnet LIV by Sir Philip Sidney
- A Poetry Reading At West Point by William Matthews
- “Goldie Pinklesweet…” by Roald Dahl
- Robert Burns: Epigram On Francis Grose The Antiquary:
- Goatsucker by Sylvia Plath
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- The Gardener XIX: You Walked by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Bonifratrian Hospital by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Владимир Корнилов – Белые слоны
- Ode to the Memory of Burns by Thomas Campbell
- Николай Некрасов – Взирает он на жизнь сурово, строго
- For The Moment by Pierre Reverdy
- The Despair
- Temper Of Time by Sylvia Plath
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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