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:
- I stood musing in a black world by Stephen Crane
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- For the Lute by William Somervile
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- Love Sonnet LX poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- “To fix her!-’twere a task as vain” by Tobias Smollett
- The Morning Walk
- Prologue to Rodin in Rime poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- The Ice Palace by William Cowper
- intertwined by rachel wright
- Николай Языков – Элегии (Скажи: когда)
- As In Their Flight The Birds Of Song by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Lyfe by Stevens Cadet
- A Snowy Night by William Barnes
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
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