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:
- The Distant Winter by Philip Levine
- Владимир Высоцкий – Слева бесы, справа бесы
- Sonnet LV by William Shakespeare
- STEPPING OUT by Satish Verma
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ни розового сада
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Last Leap
- Youth and Love poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Олег Григорьев – Если где-то кому-то плачется
- Шекспир – Ты положи с моей любовью рядом – Сонет 117
- Chungnan by Wang Wei
- Карл Сэндберг – Три слова
- The Road To Ruin by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: On The Seas And Far Away:
- Ольга Берггольц – В доме Павлова
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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