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:
- Nay Not To Night
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Day That I Have Loved by Rupert Brooke
- And Still to USA they get! by Tom Mukasa
- Blue Squills by Sara Teasdale
- To a Very Wise Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Levitation
- The Gardener LXVIII: None Lives For Ever, Brother by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- I just love you by Raj Arumugam
- Conversation 23: On Cause by Rosmarie Waldrop
- Illusion by Mercedes Madrigal
- A Journey Through The Moonlight by Russell Edson
- Низами Гянджеви – Будь весел — короток наш век
- Publishing Poetry – How To Locate The Best Markets Where You Can See Your Poems In Print
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.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