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:
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Ольга Берггольц – Стихи о ленинградских большевика
- NOCTURNAL EMBERS AND LOST LIPS by Steve Troyanovich
- Invitation To The Redbreast by William Cowper
- The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
- AN ODE FOR BEN JONSON by Robert Herrick
- Love and Law by Vachel Lindsay
- Epigram on a Swearing Coxcomb by Robert Burns
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Гроза
- The Irish Unionist’s farewell to Greta Hellastrom in 1922 poem – John Betjeman poems
- By That Lake, Whose Gloomy Shore by Thomas Moore
- The Flight by Sara Teasdale
- Иван Демьянов – Одежкин домик
- Psalm 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Юрий Коринец – Царь-баба
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 Fool Rings His Bells by Walter de la Mare
- Tartary by Walter de la Mare
- Sunk Lyonesse by Walter de la Mare
- Some One by Walter de la Mare
- Silver by Walter de la Mare
- Old Susan by Walter de la Mare
- Off the Ground by Walter de la Mare
- November by Walter de la Mare
- Music by Walter de la Mare
- Miss Loo by Walter de la Mare
- Melmillo by Walter de la Mare
- How Sleep the Brave by Walter de la Mare
- Good-bye by Walter de la Mare
- Full Moon by Walter de la Mare
- Fare Well by Walter de la Mare
- Bones by Walter de la Mare
- At Ease by Walter de la Mare
- Alone by Walter de la Mare
- All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
- Alexander by Walter de la Mare
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