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:
- Галина Гампер – Здесь сегодня все пошло с молотка
- Владимир Бенедиктов – При иллюминации
- Creative Writing For Stress Relief
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Near The Wall Of A House by Yehuda Amichai
- Kyrenaikos
- Алишер Навои – Как от вздохов безнадежных дым
- Юлия Друнина – Целовались
- Robert Burns: Talk Of Him That’s Far Awa:
- Holidays by Nicolene Kissinger
- Love Sonnet XXXV poem – Zora Bernice May Cross poems
- Erin, Oh Erin by Thomas Moore
- A Walk After Dark by W H Auden
- Федор Сологуб – Знаю знанием последним
- Юлия Друнина – Елка
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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