A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Thou who shalt stop, where Thames’ translucent wave
Shines a broad Mirror thro’ the shadowy Cave;
Where ling’ring drops from min’ral Roofs distill,
And pointed Crystals break the sparkling Rill,
Unpolish’d Gems no ray on Pride bestow,
And latent Metals innocently glow.
Approach! Great Nature studiously behold;
And eye the Mine without a wish for Gold.
Approach; but awful! Lo! th’ Egerian Grot,
Where, nobly-pensive, St. John sate and thought;
Where British sighs from dying Wyndham stole,
And the bright flame was shot thro’ Marchmont’s Soul.
Let such, such only tread this sacred Floor,
Who dare to love their Country, and be poor.

A few random poems:
- Sonnet 15 poem – John Milton poems
 - Владимир Британишский – Край Земли
 - Chorus of Athenians poem – Alexander Pope
 - conference_swan_beauty.html
 - Олег Григорьев – Пьет оса кисель из чашки
 - Stars
 - Robert Burns: Presentation Stanzas To Correspondents:
 - On a Soldier Fallen in the Philippines by William Vaughn Moody
 - Новелла Матвеева – Есть вопиющий быт, есть вещие примеры
 - O Hymen! O Hymenee! by Walt Whitman
 - Алексей Плещеев – На память
 - Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
 - Damon The Mower poem – Andrew Marvell poems
 - Иван Киуру – Ершок с вершок
 - Girl Child – An Alternate Reality by Rekha Seshadri
 
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
- Sonnet VII. To Solitude poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet VI. To G. A. W. poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet V. To A Friend Who Sent Me Some Roses poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To The Nile poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To Spenser poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To Sleep poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To Mrs. Reynolds’s Cat poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To John Hamilton Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To Homer poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To George Keats: Written In Sickness poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To Chatterton poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet To Byron poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. To A Lady Seen For A Few Moments At Vauxhall poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. The Day Is Gone poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. On The Sea poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet On Sitting Down To Read King Lear Once Again poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. On Peace poem – John Keats poems
 - Sonnet. On Leigh Hunt’s Poem ‘The Story of Rimini’ poem – John Keats poems
 
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