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:
- Такахама Кёси – О, как ночь коротка
- Written On A Summer Evening poem – John Keats poems
- The Gardener X: Let Your Work Be, Bride by Rabindranath Tagore
- Epitaph on a noted coxcomb by Robert Burns
- The Travelling Bear poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Boo to Buddha poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Пожарные лозунги (1928)
- Иван Мятлев – Звезда
- Sonnet 116: Let me not to the marriage of true minds by William Shakespeare
- In January by Ted Kooser
- Autumn by Walter Savage Landor
- Election Ballad at close of Contest for representing the Dumfries Burghs, 1790 by Robert Burns
- Think No More, Lad poem – A. E. Housman
- Sure Hit Songwriter’s Pen by Shel Silverstein
- Snow by Walter de la Mare
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 Great Palaces Of Versailles by Rita Dove
- Teach Us To Number Our Days by Rita Dove
- Primer by Rita Dove
- Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
- Mushrooms by Rina Ferrarelli
- Ludwig Von Beethoven’s Return To Vienna by Rita Dove
- Lines Composed on the Body Politic by Rita Dove
- Lady Freedom Among Us by Rita Dove
- I hear the roar of a Harley… by River Urke
- Heart To Heart by Rita Dove
- Hades’ Pitch by Rita Dove
- Fifth Grade Autobiography by Rita Dove
- Exit by Rita Dove
- Dawn Revisited by Rita Dove
- Chocolate by Rita Dove
- Cavern in Paradise by Rita Odessa Villaruel
- Broccoli by Rina Ferrarelli
- Birth Of A Flower by Riss Ryker
- American Smooth by Rita Dove
- Amarene by Rina Ferrarelli
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