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:
- Юлия Друнина – У моря
- Влад Амелин – Приумножай добро
- Asleep by Wilfred Owen
- A City Remembered by Vernon Scannell
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Precious Pearl by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Николай Заболоцкий – Рыбная лавка
- 1954 by Sharon Olds
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Волк-дурень
- My Heart Screams by Roberto Cocina
- The Ballad of the King’s Jest by Rudyard Kipling
- Олег Бундур – Поссорились
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- The Saint And The Hunchback by William Butler Yeats
- Шекспир – Доверьем мнимым держится любовь – Сонет 138
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.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