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:
- Lady Weeping at the Crossroads by W H Auden
- The Blackbird by William Barnes
- My Butterfly by Robert Frost
- Inscription to Miss Graham of Fintry by Robert Burns
- Sonnet To Chatterton poem – John Keats poems
- The Bull Moose
- Яков Полонский – Орел и голубка
- Our Hands Have Met by William Morris
- Владимир Высоцкий – В младенчестве нас матери пугали
- Four Quartets 3: The Dry Salvages by T. S. Eliot
- Firesong by Sylvia Plath
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- Apology poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Elegy for an Enemy by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Meditatio poem – Ezra Pound 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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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