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:
- Love’s Blindness poem – Alfred Austin
- Вероника Тушнова – В чем отказала я тебе
- Admonition by William Wordsworth
- The Death-Bed by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Жемчужников – Заметки о некоторой публицистике
- Biography In The First Person by Stephen Dunn
- Confession (to Alina Osipova, 1826) poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Act of Union by Seamus Heaney
- A Ballad of Our Lady (Ave Maria, gracia plena)
- Untitled XIV by Yunus Emre
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- A Slice Of School by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Владимир Британишский – Девятое января
- Feroza
- Sonnet # 4 by Luis A. Estable
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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