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:
- Владимир Британишский – Картина
- To The Hills
- The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket by Robert Lowell
- Robert Burns: The Lover’s Morning Salute To His Mistress:
- Алишер Навои – Луна в носилках, о постой
- Robert Burns: The Lass O’ Ballochmyle:
- Николай Гумилев – Он воздвигнул свой храм на горе
- October by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Плещеев – Ответ
- Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford
- Жан де Лафонтен – Орел и Сова
- The Tame Bird Was In A Cage by Rabindranath Tagore
- On Female Inconstancy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- The Confederate Flags poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Эй! крестьянин, помни ты… (Главполитпросвет №43)
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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