A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
Vital spark of heav’nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?

A few random poems:
- Miracles. by Walt Whitman
 - Игорь Северянин – Sirel
 - English Poetry. Adam Lindsay Gordon. The Rhyme of Joyous Garde. Адам Линдсей Гордон.
 - Joy-Bells by Siegfried Sassoon
 - Fragments by William Butler Yeats
 - Rhyme by the Bog by Robby Charters
 - When the Walls Were White by Noele Martin
 - The Two Terrors poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
 - Sonnet LXVII by William Shakespeare
 - Николай Заболоцкий – Поэт
 - Lament of the Frontier Guard poem – Ezra Pound poems
 - By the Spring, at Sunset by Vachel Lindsay
 - Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare
 - In The Name of Eternal Love by Walter William Safar
 - Rivulose poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
 
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
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кукует поздняя кукушка
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кострожоги
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Коломенское
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Кладбище в Заполярье
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Калина
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Из больничной тетради
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Иду в полях
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Гулко эхо от ранних шагов
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Где теперь ты, рыжая
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Эпоха
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Дорога
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Деревья с черными грачами
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Дальние предки
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Цветы сажают в торф
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Черные листья осины
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Бросаю в воду хлеб
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Береза
 - Анатолий Жигулин – Белый-белый торжественный снег
 
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