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 Lament Of The Old Nurse
- The Admirers Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Unsung Hands by Satish Verma
- Stream And Sun At Glendalough by William Butler Yeats
- The Poor House by Sara Teasdale
- Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Melmillo by Walter de la Mare
- Terminal by Sylvia Plath
- Joy, Shipmate, Joy! by Walt Whitman
- When I Was Young the Silk poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Behold, the grave of a wicked man by Stephen Crane
- Eden in Winter by Vachel Lindsay
- Epigram on Politics by Robert Burns
- In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams by Wendell Berry
- Catching the Rain by Raj Napal
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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