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:
- Владимир Высоцкий – В белье плотной вязки
- Eyesight poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Gazel poem – Yahya Kemal Beyatli poems | Poetry Monster
- Николай Гумилев – Зачарованный викинг, я шел по земле
- The Land Of Happy by Shel Silverstein
- Youth and Love poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Купальские игрища
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- The Best Blues Songs Ever
- The Song of the Garden-Toad by Vachel Lindsay
- Василий Жуковский – К Дмитриеву (Нет, не прошла)
- Route Marchin’ by Rudyard Kipling
- The Window
- Projector by Shreekumar Varma
- 10 Things I Do Every Day by Ted Berrigan
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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