A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
In vain you boast Poetic Names of yore,
And cite those Sapho’s we admire no more:
Fate doom’d the Fall of ev’ry Female Wit,
But doom’d it then when first Ardelia writ.
Of all Examples by the World confest,
I knew Ardelia could not quote the best;
Who, like her Mistress on Britannia’s Throne;
Fights, and subdues in Quarrels not her own.
To write their Praise you but in vain essay;
Ev’n while you write, you take that Praise away:
Light to the Stars the Sun does thus restore,
But shines himself till they are seen no more.
A few random poems:
- Apology to Mr. Syme for not dining with him by Robert Burns
- Our March by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 04 – part 03 by Torquato Tasso
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Наездница
- Hard To Please by Shel Silverstein
- Contradictions poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юлия Друнина – Ялта Чехова
- Николай Некрасов – Взирает он на жизнь сурово, строго
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Пускай избитый зверь, влачася на цепочке
- Владимир Британишский – Мы топор и лопату кладем про запас
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- On the Beach at Night, Alone. by Walt Whitman
- Untitled #13 by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Омар Хайям – Лучше локон любимой, лаская, схватить
- Orlando Furioso Canto 9 by Ludovico Ariosto
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
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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.