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:
- NOCTURNAL EMBERS AND LOST LIPS by Steve Troyanovich
- A child said, What is the grass by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Ермолаева – Мир неприбран, подозрителен
- Владимир Высоцкий – О знаках Зодиака
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Пытки
- Mirror by Sylvia Plath
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For James Smith:
- The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling
- I think it rains by Wole Soyinka
- Владимир Высоцкий – Михаилу Шемякину под впечатлением от серии “Чрево”
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time by William Blake
- Manifestations by Tom Shea
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
- Considering The Snail by Thom Gunn
- Broken Love by Talha Jafri
- Black Market Love by Taisha Destin
- Attention please! Attention please! by Roald Dahl
- An Act of Faith by Talha Jafri
- After Years by Ted Kooser
- Abd el-Hadi Fights a Superpower by Taha Muhammad Ali
- A Ghost in the Shell by Talha Jafri
- 10 Things I Do Every Day by Ted Berrigan
- Zermatt To The Matterhorn. by Thomas Hardy
- A Woman’s Fancy by Thomas Hardy
- The Woman In The Rye by Thomas Hardy
- A Week by Thomas Hardy
- The Year’s Awakening by Thomas Hardy
- The Workbox by Thomas Hardy
- The Wistful Lady by Thomas Hardy
- The Puzzled Game-Birds by Thomas Hardy
- A Spot by Thomas Hardy
- A Sign-Seeker by Thomas Hardy
- “The Curtains Now Are Drawn” by Thomas Hardy
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