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:
- Children of My Own by Marie Starr
- The Boston Evening Transcript by T. S. Eliot
- Diving Wreck
- Sonnet I
- I Have Dreamed of You so Much by Robert Desnos
- Last Instructions to a Painter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Lines Rhymed In A Letter From Oxford poem – John Keats poems
- Morning Poem #40 by Wanda Phipps
- The Dreamers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
- The Princess (The Conclusion) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Outside The Village Church poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Willie Brew’d A Peck O’ Maut:
- Crowding by Satish Verma
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