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:
- Зинаида Александрова – Новый снег
- If A Tree Could Wander by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
- “According to the Mighty Working” by Thomas Hardy
- In Spring, Santa Barbara by Sara Teasdale
- Charms by William Henry Davies
- The Country Of Marriage by Wendell Berry
- Зинаида Александрова – У моря
- The Lotus by Rabindranath Tagore
- Insomniac by Maya Angelou
- Music by Stephen Vincent Benet
- Memory by William Butler Yeats
- My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl by Vachel Lindsay
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- Epistle to the Rev. John M’Math by Robert Burns
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 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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