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:
- Alison Gross poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Оливер Голдсмит – Каждому по заслугам
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Низами Гянджеви – Искендер-наме – Страница 13 из 15
- Two Months by Rudyard Kipling
- Black Stone On Top Of Nothing by Philip Levine
- Joy of giving by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- In My Own Shire, If I Was Sad poem – A. E. Housman
- The Mothering Blackness by Maya Angelou
- On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Farewell To Italy poem – Alfred Austin
- Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
- A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies
- Алексей Жемчужников – Старик
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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