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:
- William Stanley Merwin – William Stanley Merwin
- Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy
- “Young England–What Is Then Become Of Old” by William Wordsworth
- Федор Сологуб – Астероид
- Sonnet LIII by William Shakespeare
- Breathing Stars, Inspiration and the Labyrinth of Correspondence
- Prisoners poem – Yusef Komunyakaa poems | Poetry Monster
- Олег Бундур – Совет
- The Wicked Postman by Rabindranath Tagore
- Омар Хайям – Чем пустыми мечтами себя донимать
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- Daryl, My Son by Ronald G. Auguste
- A Child Of War
- What Best I See In Thee. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Седакова – Сказка
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
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