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:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Чем больше в мире я живу
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- The Bangle Sellers by Sarojini Naidu
- Владислав Ходасевич – Ни розового сада
- forever blue by Steve Troyanovich
- Poem (The lump of coal my parents teased) by William Matthews
- In A Restaurant by Sara Teasdale
- first_verse.html
- Eyesight poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- For Once, Then, Something by Robert Frost
- Sonnet 16: But wherefore do not you a mightier way by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот для чего мужику самолет
- Анатолий Жигулин – Ах, речка, речка Тебердинка
- Sonnet 23 poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Бенедиктов – День и две ночи
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.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