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:
- Poets to Come. by Walt Whitman
- Of Him I Love Day and Night. by Walt Whitman
- The Final Poem poem – Andree Chedid poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lorelei by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Солоухин – Волки
- Robert Burns: For A’ That:
- Владимир Британишский – В “Онегине”, глава седьмая
- On Elphinstone’s Translation of Martial’s Epigrams by Robert Burns
- Walk with Me by Tammy L Ames
- Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- The Water-Nymph poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Владимир Маяковский – Да здравствуют недели помощи по всей республике (Главполитпросвет №353)
- On The Death Of The Vice-Chancellor, A Physician (Translated From Milton) by William Cowper
- Игорь Северянин – Синее
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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