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:
- Love and Law by Vachel Lindsay
- A Quick Ode to Spam, a Poem about Spam
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пожар
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- Come, Send Round the Wine by Thomas Moore
- Leave This by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – О да, простые, бедные слова
- Snake eggs by Victor A. Bueno M.
- Владимир Набоков – Вдали от берега, в мерцании морском
- Creation poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Schoolroom On A Wet Afternoon by Vernon Scannell
- Ольга Берггольц – Слепой
- Владимир Высоцкий – Серенада Соловья-разбойника
- The Silver Jubilee poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins 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
- 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