A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
In merry old England it once was the rule
The King had his poet and also his fool
But now were so frugal I have you to know it
That Cibber can serve both for fool and for poet!

A few random poems:
- Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: On Tam The Chapman:
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- On His Grotto at Twickenham poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- The Boy by William Allingham
- Man And The Echo by William Butler Yeats
- Юлия Друнина – В голом парке коченеют клёны
- Song—Awa’, Whigs, Awa’ by Robert Burns
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- Eternity by Samuel Stephen Wakdok
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Песнь соловья
- Jewels Should Sparkle Daily by Ronald G. Auguste
- Омар Хайям – Бытует мнение, что счастье это дар
- Жан де Лафонтен – Два Мула
- Black magic by Mrunmayi Mandan
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
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Far In a Western Brookland poem – Alfred Edward Housman
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries poem – A. E. Housman
- Could Man Be Drunk Forever poem – A. E. Housman
- Bring, In This Timeless Grave To Throw poem – A. E. Housman
- Bredon Hill poem – A. E. Housman
- As Through the Wild Green Hills of Wyre poem – A. E. Housman
- Along the field as we came poem – A. E. Housman
- The Haymakers’ Song poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- At His Grave poem – Alfred Austin
- Agatha poem – Alfred Austin
- Loves Blindness
- The Haymakers Song
- Loves Blindness
- At His Grave
- Agatha
- Why
- Where Are You
- Tell Me
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