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:
- Thoughts in a Garden poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- A Portrait Of 1783 poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Three Beggars by William Butler Yeats
- Spring by Ramesh Anand
- Loneliness by Sappho
- Владимир Степанов – Рукавицы для лисицы
- How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вратарь (Льву Яшину)
- Water Music by Robert Creeley
- How a Little Girl Sang by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Могила
- Владислав Крапивин – Было все хорошо до недавней поры
- Алексей Ржевский – Прости, Москва
- A Case Of Murder by Vernon Scannell
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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