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:
- On A Celebrated Event In Ancient History by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet 147: My love is as a fever, longing still by William Shakespeare
- Paraphrase of the First Psalm by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
- A Letter From Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Николай Огарев – Я сорвал ветку кипариса
- Юлий Даниэль – Часовой
- Parallel Lies by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Sonnet 24: Mine eye hath played the painter and hath stelled by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Британишский – Картина
- The Dream by Sylvia Plath
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- Tony Harrison – Tony Harrison
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
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
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- A Lake And A Fairy Boat by Thomas Hood
- Your Last Drive by Thomas Hardy
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- [Greek Title] by Thomas Hardy
- Afterwards by Thomas Hardy
- A Broken Appointment by Thomas Hardy
- love_is_just_like_the_rain.html
- boy_running_in_the_rain.html
- xai_kou_from_book_seeds_of_faith.html
- xai_kou1.html
- xai_kou0.html
- xai_kou.html
- vorticism_is_a_choka_in_its_modular_home.html
- victor.html
- traveling.html
- tracks_in_the_private_country.html
- the_world.html
- the_holy_tree.html
- the_emigrant.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