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:
- Николай Языков – Вторая присяга
 - Robert Burns: She’s Fair And Fause:
 - Thoughts Religious Content
 - Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
 - Омар Хайям – Кто не грешит?
 - Praying Drunk poem – Andrew Hudgins poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Your Eyes by Omair Bhat
 - Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
 - Алексей Жемчужников – О, жизнь
 - In Memoriam F.O.S. by Sara Teasdale
 - How Solemn as One by One. by Walt Whitman
 - Ballad of the Goodly Fere poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - Mid-Term Break by Seamus Heaney
 - Blue Squills by Sara Teasdale
 - Colored Toys by Rabindranath Tagore
 
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
 - Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
 - An Ode to the Democratic Rat
 - Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
 - To A Feminist
 - 对于女权主义者
 - To the Rat’s Pencil
 - 致老鼠的铅笔
 - Toward Salvation
 - My rat
 - I Love My Rat
 - 我爱我的老鼠
 - Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
 - Impostor’s Coronation
 - Monster’s Cave
 - 白色四月
 - White April
 - 我被包围了
 - Surrounded
 
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