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:
- Gold Mouths Cry by Sylvia Plath
- Hurry by Marie Howe
- Dreadful by Shel Silverstein
- Flora by William Morris
- Yell of Pain by Maria Ivana Trevisani Bach
- Алексей Толстой – Ты жертва жизненных тревог
- Awed by her splendor by Sappho
- What Work Is by Philip Levine
- Алексей Жемчужников – Ты прав
- Epigram : On The Inventor Of Gunpowder (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Sonnet LXX by William Shakespeare
- Wandering Singers by Sarojini Naidu
- On The Cliffs Newport
- Юнна Мориц – За невлюбленными людьми
- Robert Burns: Thanksgiving For A National Victory:
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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