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:
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- Don’t fear death poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- To a Beloved Child by Patrick Pearse
- Sonnet I
- A Wreath Of Immortelles poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Old Maid by Sara Teasdale
- Colin Instructed by Thomas Chatterton
- Central Park At Dusk by Sara Teasdale
- Song. Good Counsel to a Young Maid by Thomas Carew
- Кондратий Рылеев – Как солнце ни блестит и как оно ни светит
- The place that is dark without space and the moonlight off the pond (The Gray) by Olivia Lewis
- The Sky A-Clearen by William Barnes
- The Gardener XXVIII: Your Questioning Eyes by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Black Hawk War of the Artists by Vachel Lindsay
- Written In Cananore
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 Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Silence by Thomas Hood
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- November by Thomas Hood
- No! by Thomas Hood
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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