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:
- Thought. by Walt Whitman
- The Heart That Is Pining by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- Омар Хайям – И теперь живу под гнетом страха
- Владимир Маяковский – Весна (Город зимнее снял)
- Eclogue:–A Bit O’ Sly Coorten by William Barnes
- Untitled XXI by Yunus Emre
- Низами Гянджеви – Пускай охотится на всех газелеоких
- Алексей Плещеев – Дети века все больные
- Владислав Крапивин – Гонка
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка для шахтера-друга про шахтерки, чуни и каменный уголь
- Respect her by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- A youth in apparel that glittered by Stephen Crane
- Омар Хайям – Будь мягче к людям
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
- Slant by Stephen Dunn
- Poem For People That Are Understandably Too Busy To Read Poetry by Stephen Dunn
- Named by Stephen Dunn
- Landscape At The End Of The Century by Stephen Dunn
- I Come Home Wanting To Touch Everyone by Stephen Dunn
- Essay On The Personal by Stephen Dunn
- Biography In The First Person by Stephen Dunn
- At The Smithville Methodist Church by Stephen Dunn
- Allegory Of The Cave by Stephen Dunn
- The White Peacock by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Quality of Courage by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Innovator by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Hemp by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The General Public by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Fiddling Wood by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Drug-Shop, or, Endymion in Edmonstoun by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The City Revisited by Stephen Vincent Benet
- The Breaking Point by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Talk by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Road and Hills by Stephen Vincent Benet
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