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:
- Inscription to Chloris by Robert Burns
- To a President. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Мы топор и лопату кладем про запас
- Аля Кудряшева – Снова current
- A Precise Woman by Yehuda Amichai
- A VOW TO VENUS by Robert Herrick
- Puck’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Bubblin’ Up by Shel Silverstein
- politeness.html
- Юлиан Анисимов – Камнем сгрудилась комната
- Friend by Rabindranath Tagore
- Calypso by W H Auden
- Robert Burns: The Captain’s Lady:
- Sketch—New Year’s Day, 1790 by Robert Burns
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 Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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