A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
When wise Ulysses, from his native coast
Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss’d,
Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone,
To all his friends, and ev’n his Queen unknown,
Changed as he was, with age, and toils, and cares,
Furrow’d his rev’rend face, and white his hairs,
In his own palace forc’d to ask his bread,
Scorn’d by those slaves his former bounty fed,
Forgot of all his own domestic crew,
The faithful Dog alone his rightful master knew!
Unfed, unhous’d, neglected, on the clay
Like an old servant now cashier’d, he lay;
Touch’d with resentment of ungrateful man,
And longing to behold his ancient lord again.
Him when he saw he rose, and crawl’d to meet,
(‘Twas all he could) and fawn’d and kiss’d his feet,
Seiz’d with dumb joy; then falling by his side,
Own’d his returning lord, look’d up, and died!
A few random poems:
- Tobias Smollett – Tobias Smollett
- four legs good, two legs badOwl Hoots and Grasshopper Sings by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: Epigram On The Said Occasion [On A Henpecked Country Squire]:
- Burbank with a Baedeker: Bleistein with a Cigar by T. S. Eliot
- Ок Мельникова – Где-то на приморском
- Владимир Маяковский – Дожмем! В России буржуазия побеждена… (РОСТА №841)
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (Куда так проворно, жидовка младая)
- A character of it’s own by Sylvan Lightbourne
- Алексей Жемчужников – Старик
- A Girl by Ezra Pound
- Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Merry Hae I Been Teethin A Heckle:
- Robert Burns: To John Kennedy, Dumfries House:
- Robert Burns: How Cruel Are The Parents: Altered from an old English song. tune-“John Anderson, my jo.”
- Olney Hymn 29: Exhortation To Prayer by William Cowper
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) was a a post-Restoration English poet and satirist. He is a poet of the (British) Augustan period and one of its greatest artistic exponents.