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:
- Hey birds by Raj Arumugam
- Even if I don’t hear your voice, I know by Vinko Kalinic
- Алексей Толстой – Растянулся на просторе
- Юрий Галансков – Человеческий манифест
- El Extraviado
- Владимир Маяковский – Чугунные штаны
- Business Girls poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Poet Herodia of ancient Pincaeia by Raj Arumugam
- Нина Стожкова – Подарки деда Мороза
- To A Young Girl by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка ни про что, или Что случилось в Африке
- Russia To The Pacifists by Rudyard Kipling
- A Pact poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Corinna, from Athens, to Tanagra by Walter Savage Landor
- Владимир Маяковский – Себе, любимому, посвящает эти строки автор
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