A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
When other fair ones to the shades go down,
Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:
Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
A few random poems:
- Wonderment by Siegfried Sassoon
- Константин Бальмонт – Музыка
- Омар Хайям – Меняем реки, страны, города
- Bound for your distant home poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Robert Burns: It Is Na, Jean, Thy Bonie Face:
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
- Vacant Lot With Pokeweed poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
- On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield by Phillis Wheatley
- On Pallas Bathing, From A Hymn Of Callimachus by William Cowper
- Epitaph on a Tyrant by W. H. Auden
- Владимир Высоцкий – Иноходец
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Любить
- Man’s Knowledge – Ingorance in the Mysteries of God by William Drummond
- Владимир Британишский – Наш учитель истории
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
- In Praise Of England poem – Alfred Austin
- Impromptu: To Frances Garnet Wolseley poem – Alfred Austin
- If I To You But Sorry Bring poem – Alfred Austin
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
- Grandmother’s Teaching poem – Alfred Austin
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Love Of Life poem – Alfred Austin
- Lost poem – Alfred Austin
- Lines Written On Visiting The Chateaux On The Loire poem – Alfred Austin
- Let The Weary World Go Round poem – Alfred Austin
- Leszko The Bastard poem – Alfred Austin
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- In The Month When Sings The Cuckoo poem – Alfred Austin
- In The Forum poem – Alfred Austin
- In Sutton Woods poem – Alfred Austin
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.