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:
- Lying on a Slab by Satish Verma
- Ок Мельникова – Заповедь номер одиннадцать
- J–K. Huysmans poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Appease by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The Pretense of Gathering Pebbles by the Shore by Syed Kawsar Jamal
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. Home. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- Epitaph for Mr. Gabriel Richardson, Brewer by Robert Burns
- Иван Киуру – Теленок Леня
- Валерий Брюсов – После сенокоса
- Only Iraq by Mahmoud Darwish
- The Mysterious Cat by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Смерть в Мессине
- Яков Полонский – На Женевском озере
- A Fleeting Passion by William Henry Davies
- Gravity Suspended
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.