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:
- A Curse for Kings by Vachel Lindsay
- Влад Амелин – Приумножай добро
- Олег Бундур – В саду
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Facing West from California’s Shores. by Walt Whitman
- Song—Auld Rob Morris by Robert Burns
- Ольга Седакова – Луг, юго-западный ветер
- Not Fair
- The Boy by William Allingham
- Between The Wars by Robert Hass
- Sonnet # 13 by Luis A. Estable
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Джон Мильтон – О Шекспире
- The Blessed Virgin Compared To The Air We Breathe poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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
- The Old Maids Story
- The Night
- The Mob
- The Midnight Mass
- The Magic Wand
- The Legend Of Lady Gertrude
- The Last Battle Of The Cid
- The Kind Word
- The Hands That Hang Down
- The Hand In The Dark
- The Future Verdict
- The Easter Decorations
- The Dawn
- The Dawn Of Gods Sabbath
- The Crown Of Thorns
- The Coo Of The Cushat
- The Candle Of The Lord
- The Baptistry
- Sic Vos Non Vobis
- Seed Time And Harvest
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