A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
I
But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone
And ill can bear a Brother on the Throne.
II
Wit is like faith by such warm Fools profest
Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest.
III
Some who grow dull religious strait commence
And gain in morals what they lose in sence.
IV
Wits starve as useless to a Common weal
While Fools have places purely for their Zea.
V
Now wits gain praise by copying other wits
As one Hog lives on what another sh—.
VI
Wou’d you your writings to some Palates fit
Purged all you verses from the sin of wit
For authors now are so conceited grown
They praise no works but what are like their own.
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- Song from Arcadia by Sir Philip Sidney
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- Song—Address to the Woodlark by Robert Burns
- Words Of Love Forevermore by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Sonet 44 by William Alexander
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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
- Владимир Корнилов – Муки свободы
- Владимир Корнилов – Молодая поэзия
- Владимир Корнилов – Место
- Владимир Корнилов – Маросейка
- Владимир Корнилов – Лермонтов
- Владимир Корнилов – Кривая
- Владимир Корнилов – Командировка на Север
- Владимир Корнилов – Иннокентий Анненский
- Владимир Корнилов – Игра судьбы
- Владимир Корнилов – Гумилев
- Владимир Корнилов – Глухота
- Владимир Корнилов – Гитара
- Владимир Корнилов – Флейта в метро
- Владимир Корнилов – Эпоха
- Владимир Корнилов – Двое
- Владимир Корнилов – Дождь обычный
- Владимир Корнилов – Достается, наверно, непросто
- Владимир Корнилов – Дом
- Владимир Корнилов – Державинское
- Владимир Корнилов – Чтение
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
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.