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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Заря Коммуны разгорается туго… (РОСТА №856)
- София Парнок – Он ходит с женщиной в светлом
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt and will do none by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Набоков – Ты многого, слишком ты многого хочешь
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бегун морей дорогою безбрежной
- From The Frontier Of Writing by Seamus Heaney
- Yes, ’tis the pulse of life! my fears were vain!
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищ! Шахтер раздет… (РОСТА №603)
- Валерий Брюсов – Фабричная
- You’re by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
- Between Games by Vasko Popa
- Happiness by Wilfred Owen
- Михаил Лермонтов – Челнок (Воет ветр и свистит пред недальной грозой)
- Scotland by MB Moshe
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
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.