A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
All hail, once pleasing, once inspiring shade!
Scene of my youthful loves and happier hours!
Where the kind Muses met me as I stray’d,
And gently press’d my hand, and said “Be ours!-
Take all thou e’er shalt have, a constant Muse:
At Court thou may’st be liked, but nothing gain:
Stock thou may’st buy and sell, but always lose,
And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain.”

A few random poems:
- The Jailer by Sylvia Plath
- Foreign Missions in Battle Array by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ Чичерин и тралеры отдает и прочее
- Robert Burns: Beware O’ Bonie Ann:
- Владимир Маяковский – Перекопский энтузиазм
- At The Close Of The Canvass poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- By Callimachus by William Cowper
- The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4 poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Folk Singer’s Blues by Shel Silverstein
- Epitaph On A Free But Tame Redbreast, A Favourite Of Miss Sally Hurdis by William Cowper
- Жан де Лафонтен – Смерть и Несчастный
- Константин Бальмонт – На дальнем полюсе
- Book Second [School-Time Continued] by William Wordsworth
- Illusion of Time by Ndue Ukaj
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 Hosts
- 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
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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.