A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
To fix the ground where Paradise was placed;
Mind not their learned whims and idle talk;
Here, here’s the place where these bright angels walk.

A few random poems:
- Юрий Галансков – Человеческий манифест
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Rear-Guard by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: The Slave’s Lament:
- Альфред де Мюссе – Друзья мои! Когда умру я
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- On The Difficulty Of Conjuring Up A Dryad by Sylvia Plath
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Лисица на суде перед Обезьяной
- Hope, An Allegorical Sketch by William Lisle Bowles
- Traveling
- Николай Заболоцкий – Городок
- Владимир Маяковский – Первомайское поздравление
- Николай Тихонов – Когда уйду
- Sonnet 03 poem – John Milton poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – К Надежде
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 Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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