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:
- Sheep In Fog by Sylvia Plath
- A Dog’s Grave by Winifred Mary Letts
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- Where We Live Now by Philip Levine
- Diving Into The Wreck
- A Dedication to Gavin Hamilton by Robert Burns
- Hither, Hither, Love poem – John Keats poems
- Francis II, King of Naples poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Westward on the High-Hilled Plains poem – A. E. Housman
- Василий Тредиаковский – В сем озере бедные любовники
- Dirge for Two Veterans. by Walt Whitman
- Eclogue:–Racketèn Joe by William Barnes
- Олег Чупров – Душа
- Михаил Кузмин – В раскосый блеск зеркал забросив сети
- The Lew O’ The Rick by William Barnes
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
- Dickinson And The Alabaster Gogyohka
- Dawned Again
- Create
- Conference Swan Beauty
- Colors And Sounds
- Children039s Eyes
- Audience With A Poet Written December 13 1976 For Robert E Hayden Ph D
- Athens Stone Of Sapphire Of Ground The Ring
- As With Recitation And The Loss Of A Kuhi
- Antediluvian Kural On Twitter
- Alexander
- Acts Of Love
- A Single Man
- A Poet039s Privilege
- A Poem
- A Dialogue
- A City One Wish
- A Choka Is A Littoral Drift
- Gazebo
- All Days Seem Same
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