A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild;
In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child:
With native Humour temp’ring virtuous Rage,
Form’d to delight at once and lash the age:
Above Temptation, in a low Estate, 5
And uncorrupted, ev’n among the Great:
A safe Companion, and an easy Friend,
Unblam’d thro’ Life, lamented in thy End.
These are Thy Honours! not that here thy Bust
Is mix’d with Heroes, or with Kings thy dust; 10
But that the Worthy and the Good shall say,
Striking their pensive bosoms-Here lies GAY.

A few random poems:
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- Rita And The Rifle by Mahmoud Darwish
- An Epistle Containing the Strange Medical Experience of Kar by Robert Browning
- Ten Years After by Graham Rowlands
- A Man Young And Old: IX. The Secrets Of The Old by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Некрасов – Вступление к песням 1876-77 годов
- Ольга Берггольц – Я иду по местам боев
- Charms by William Henry Davies
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Монастыркам
- Олег Григорьев – Прометей
- Summer We Called Home by Vinita Agrawal
- Николай Карамзин – Impromptu графине Р, которой в одной святошной игре досталось быть королевою
- NOCTURNAL EMBERS AND LOST LIPS by Steve Troyanovich
- Олег Григорьев – Шмель
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
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton
- Physically Hearted
- On The Conduct Of The World Seeking Beauty Against Government poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Not my poem
- My Sad Self poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Mugging (I) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Millions of Us poem – Alice Notley
- Meaning of silence-ness.
- Making The Lion For All It’s Got — A Ballad poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Kraj Majales (King Of May) poem – Allen Ginsberg
- It Would poem – Alice Notley
- Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton
- I the People poem – Alice Notley
- Human Tendency
- Gift poem – Alice Notley
- Feast of the Eyes
- City of My Childhood
- Cezanne’s Ports poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Borow
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