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:
- To a Friend poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor
- Алексей Плещеев – Дети века все больные
- In The Depths Of Solitude by Tupac Shakur
- Олег Бундур – Учительница открыла журнал
- Soledad by Robert Hayden
- Becalmed and Bewildered by Thomas J Camp
- Maternal Grief by William Wordsworth
- Battle Salamis
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка ни про что, или Что случилось в Африке
- Insights Into History, Culture, & Creativity of Sri Lanka – Explore the Cultural Triangle
- Николай Языков – Романс (Угрюм стоит дремучий лес)
- Robert Burns: On Seeing Mrs. Kemble In Yarico:
- Noon by Philip Levine
- Boa Constrictor by Shel Silverstein
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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