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:
- Goddess poem – Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi poems | Poems and Poetry
- My iPod by Roland Bastien
- To A Sad Daughter by Michael Ondaatje
- An Hymn To Humanity by Phillis Wheatley
- The Germans On The Heighs Of Hochheim by William Wordsworth
- Clover by Sidney Lanier
- An Anniversary
- The Gardener XXI: Why Did He Choose by Rabindranath Tagore
- On Woman by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Берггольц – Огонь, и воду, и медные трубы
- The Happy Days When I Wer Young by William Barnes
- Николай Гумилев – Никогда не сделаю я так
- Jewels by Sara Teasdale
- Duet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- For what’s worth breathing by Rixa White
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