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:
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Robert Burns: On John Bushby, Esq., Tinwald Downs:
- Summer by Luther Seahand
- The Lotus by Rabindranath Tagore
- Нина Воронель – Вечная мерзлота
- Владимир Бенедиктов – С могучей страстию в мучительной борьбе
- Ad Piscatorem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Wibble Wobble poem – Alexander E Musset poems | Poetry Monster
- Crossing the Frontier
- Новелла Матвеева – Смех Фавна
- Unforgetting by Satish Verma
- Ballade Of Dead Ladies poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Address to His Elbow-Chair, New Cloath’d, An by William Somervile
- Portals. by Walt Whitman
- Аля Кудряшева – Ну что я могу ответить
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