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:
- Виктор Кирюшин – Небеса набухшей парусиною
- Eyes And Tears poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Огюст Барбье – Роберт Эммет
- Depression Before Spring by Wallace Stevens
- Анатолий Жигулин – Не надо бояться памяти
- Fist by Philip Levine
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- A Galloway Song poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Маяковский – Старый мотив (РОСТА №137)
- Who Learns My Lesson Complete? by Walt Whitman
- The tragic tale of Bobby Magee by Ross D Tyler
- Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan
- Владимир Корнилов – Сорок лет спустя
- From Milton: And did those feet by William Blake
- Robert Burns: The Solemn League And Covenant:
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
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- My Mother’s Grief
- If Truth In Hearts That Perish
- I Havent Betrayed You My Hometown
- Eclipse Of Love
- Divided Passion
- Death039s Claim
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- A Gogyohka And The Forgotten Panopticon
- A Faded Postcard Is A Tanka Daydream
- The Dead Woman poem – Pablo Neruda
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- Water Strider
- The Infernal Regions
- Honeycomb
- Dark Matter
- Wet City Night
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