A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Come gentle Air! th’ AEolian shepherd said,
While Procris panted in the secret shade:
Come, gentle Air, the fairer Delia cries,
While at her feet her swain expiring lies.
Lo the glad gales o’er all her beauties stray,
Breathe on her lips, and in her bosom play!
In Delia’s hand this toy is fatal found,
Nor could that fabled dart more surely wound:
Both gifts destructive to the givers prove;
Alike both lovers fall by those they love.
Yet guiltless too this bright destroyer lives,
At random wounds, nor knows the wound she gives:
She views the story with attentive eyes,
And pities Procris, while her lover dies.
A few random poems:
- Алексей Плещеев – Цветок
- To Vernon Lee poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Drunken Fisherman by Robert Lowell
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- Inscriptions Written with a Slate Pencil upon a Stone by William Wordsworth
- Стефан Малларме – Появление
- Владимир Корнилов – Сызнова
- Mother’s Love by Nin Andrews
- Владимир Маяковский – Notre-Dame
- The Birth Of Love by William Wordsworth
- Masonic Song—Ye Sons of Old Killie by Robert Burns
- Владимир Солоухин – Яблоко
- Владимир Британишский – В чащобах памяти кого не встретишь вдруг
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- For the Bed at Kelmscott by William Morris
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
- Paris In Spring by Sara Teasdale
- Over The Roofs by Sara Teasdale
- Only In Sleep by Sara Teasdale
- On The Dunes by Sara Teasdale
- On The Death Of Swinburne by Sara Teasdale
- Oh Day Of Fire And Sun by Sara Teasdale
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- Night In Arizona by Sara Teasdale
- New Year’s Dawn – Broadway by Sara Teasdale
- Madeira From The Sea by Sara Teasdale
- Love In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- Interlude: Songs Out Of Sorrow by Sara Teasdale
- In The Train by Sara Teasdale
- In The Metropolitan Museum by Sara Teasdale
- In The End by Sara Teasdale
- Night Song At Amalfi by Sara Teasdale
- In the Carpenter’s Shop by Sara Teasdale
- Night In Arizona by Sara Teasdale
- In Spring, Santa Barbara by Sara Teasdale
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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.