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:
- Remorse: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Fareweel To A’Our Scottish Fame by Robert Burns
- Eve of spring by Vladimir Marku
- The Gardener XVI: Hands Cling to Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- An Ode in Time of Hesitation by William Vaughn Moody
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- I’ve Been Working So Hard by Shel Silverstein
- Наум Коржавин – Перевал
- Daniel Dwithen, The Wise Chap by William Barnes
- Note to Reality by Tony Hoagland
- Discretion by Satish Verma
- In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson poem – Alexander Pope
- I Wait For You… poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- The Fair Singer poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- God Is Good by John Oxenham
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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