A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Here, shunning idleness at once and praise,
This radiant pile nine rural sisters raise;
The glittering emblem of each spotless dame,
Clear as her soul and shining as her frame;
Beauty which nature only can impart,
And such a polish as disgraces art;
But Fate disposed them in this humble sort,
And hid in deserts what would charm a Court.

A few random poems:
- Look Down, Fair Moon. by Walt Whitman
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- Wisdom in Love by Lutfi Abdallah a.k.a Laso
- Олег Григорьев – Ты боишься высоты
- Lips and Eyes. by Thomas Carew
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1 poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Бенедиктов – О, не играй веселых песен мне
- Нина Воронель – Московский день
- Василий Жуковский – Государыне великой княгине на рождение
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Молитва
- Touch-And-Go by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse by William Shakespeare
- Attention please! Attention please! by Roald Dahl
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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.