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:
- Sketch in Verse, inscribed to the Right Hon. C. J. Fox by Robert Burns
- Константин Бальмонт – Мудрецы говорят
- On Late Acquired Wealth (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
- Boat Song—Hey, Ca’ Thro’ by Robert Burns
- Вера Павлова – Всходить на костёр Жанною
- I Am There by Mahmoud Darwish
- Long, too Long, O Land! by Walt Whitman
- The Power of Armies is a Visible Thing by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet: As From The Darkening Gloom A Silver Dove poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Высоцкий – Знать бы все до конца бы и сразу б
- Song—A Waukrife Minnie by Robert Burns
- A Song of a Girl from Loyang by Wang Wei
- Robin Hood poem – John Keats poems
- Beach Glass poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.