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:
- Омар Хайям – Не выращивай в сердце печали росток
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- as_with_a_senryu_s_hardening_ridge.html
- Sonnet 02
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- The Burning Crusade by Memphis Knight
- Николай Карамзин – Истина
- The Gardener XXVI: What Comes From Your Willing Hands by Rabindranath Tagore
- Владимир Степанов – Угадай-ка, это кто?
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- Independence poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
- cell-mate.html
- Ballade Of The Summer Term poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Sonnet 27: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed by William Shakespeare
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
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