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:
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Люблю я сельский мой приют
- Нина Воронель – Август
- The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
- Life by Sarojini Naidu
- Владимир Высоцкий – Наводчица
- Валерий Брюсов – Городу дифирамб
- Evening by Rainer Maria Rilke
- “Hedge, that divides the lovely” by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бахчисарай
- On The Death Of Swinburne by Sara Teasdale
- Аля Кудряшева – Поперек
- When Gassy Thompson Struck It Rich by Vachel Lindsay
- I’ve Got a Golden Ticket by Roald Dahl
- Robert Burns: A Poet’s Welcome To His Love-Begotten Daughter: The First Instance That Entitled Him To The Venerable Appellation Of Father
- For A Picture Of St. Dorothea poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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