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:
- “Brook! Whose Society The Poet Seeks” by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Степанов – Гусь и цыплёнок
- Василий Тредиаковский – Дворы там весьма суть уединенны
- Юлия Друнина – Бережем тех, кого любим
- Parnell by William Butler Yeats
- An Acre Of Grass by William Butler Yeats
- Criss-Cross Acrostic*: Ai My Eye ! by T. Wignesan
- Engagements by Satish Verma
- Sonnet 144: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair by William Shakespeare
- Twiddle-de-dee by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- The Child Is Father To The Man by Ted Hughes
- Passion makes the old medicine new: by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Огюст Барбье – Мельпомена
- As a Beam O’er the Face of the Waters May Glow by Thomas Moore
- Priorities of Life and Death
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
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.