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:
- Refrigerator, 1957 by Thomas Lux
- Last News About The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Inscription For The Tomb Of Mr. Hamilton by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне скулы от досады сводит
- Ho, everyone that thirsteth poem – A. E. Housman
- Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song) by Robert Burns
- Earth-Moon by Ted Hughes
- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
- Robert Burns: Epistle To James Smith:
- Владимир Британишский – Куда ты уйдешь
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Beach Glass poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Набоков – Мечтал я о тебе так часто
- Winter Violets poem – Alfred Austin
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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