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:
- Олег Сердобольский – Играли в шахматы слоны
- Владимир Костров – До чего нестерпимо и жёстко подуло
- Владимир Набоков – О, любовь, ты светла и крылата
- Statistic by Shivam Pandya
- Омар Хайям – О, кумир, Дружбу ты почему прервала
- Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Plague Victims Catapulted Over Walls Into Besieged City by Thomas Lux
- The Meeting by Sara Teasdale
- The beauty of the heart by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мне каждый вечер зажигают свечи
- A Soldier’s Song by Stephenie Tucker
- Lines on the Author’s Death by Robert Burns
- Smoke Off by Shel Silverstein
- Вергилий – Лидия
- Dyer Died In Silence poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
- The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Telescope by Mark R Slaughter
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
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