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:
- Владимир Корнилов – Тоска
- Алексей Плещеев – Песня
- The Gardener LXXXI: Why Do You Whisper So Faintly by Rabindranath Tagore
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- The Fool Errant poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Captain by Stevens Cadet
- I have been tricked by flying too close by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Жан де Лафонтен – Дафнис и Алцимадура
- Robert Burns: On A Noisy Polemic:
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
- No, Love Is Not Dead by Robert Desnos
- In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
- Astrophel And Stella; Sonnet CVIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- Song, by a Person of Quality poem – Alexander Pope
- Quatrain 1693 (Farsi with English Translation) by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
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
- Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles by W H Auden
- Voltaire At Ferney by W H Auden
- Underneath an Abject Willow by W H Auden
- This Lunar Beauty by W H Auden
- They Wondered Why the Fruit had Been Forbidden by W H Auden
- The Waters by W H Auden
- The Wanderer by W H Auden
- The Two by W H Auden
- The Riddle by W H Auden
- The Quest by W H Auden
- The Quest XII (Vocation) by W H Auden
- The Novelist by W H Auden
- The Labyrinth by W H Auden
- The Hidden Law by W H Auden
- The Geography of the House by W H Auden
- The Dream by W H Auden
- The Common Life by W H Auden
- Thanksgiving for a Habitat by W H Auden
- Taller To-day by W H Auden
- Song Of The Master And Boatswain by W H Auden
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