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:
- Four Quartets 2: East Coker by T. S. Eliot
- Stars Over The Dordogne by Sylvia Plath
- Федор Сологуб – Под кустами
- Nanny’s Cow by William Barnes
- On the Danger of Procrastination by Abraham Cowley
- His Mistress to Him at his Farewell by Robert Herrick
- O the Chimneys by Nelly Sachs
- Psyche by Samuel Coleridge
- In Midas’ Country by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: John Barleycorn: A Ballad :
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Южная ночь
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem by Yehuda Amichai
- Dream With Clam-Diggers by Sylvia Plath
- The Cobweb by Raymond Carver
- Sonnet CXXIV by William Shakespeare
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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