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:
- It was an April morning: fresh and clear by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно Октябрь празднуют… (РОСТА №398)
- Mirage poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Delia: An Ode by Robert Burns
- Степан Щипачев – Жил мальчик в деревне
- Robert Burns: The Cardin O’t, The Spinnin O’t:
- Middle-Ages by Siegfried Sassoon
- Snake eggs by Victor A. Bueno M.
- By the Spring, at Sunset by Vachel Lindsay
- Arithmetic on the Frontier by Rudyard Kipling
- The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Владимир Степанов – Рассказ оружейника
- An Experiment In Translation poem – Alfred Austin
- Robert Burns: Grace After Meat:
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Тост
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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