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:
- Time Out To Cry by Shannen Wrass
- Георгий Иванов – То, о чем искусство лжет
- Rain all along by Mukeshkumar Raval
- happiness.html
- Address to Wm. Tytler, Esq., of Woodhouselee by Robert Burns
- Eve by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Online Lover by Rainbow Reed
- Don’t Give A Dose To The One You Love Most by Shel Silverstein
- I Can’t Touch The Sun by Shel Silverstein
- an evening’s music by Raj Arumugam
- Special Problems in Vocabulary by Tony Hoagland
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Алексей Толстой – Слова для мазурки
- Вера Полозкова – Есть дерево, в лесу всего древней
- Dialogue En Route by Sylvia Plath
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
- Sonnet 12
- Sonnet 11
- Sonnet 10
- Sonnet 08
- Sonnet 07
- Sonnet 06
- Sonnet 05
- Sonnet 04
- Sonnet 03
- Sonnet 02
- Sonnet 01
- Resurgam
- Rendezvous
- Paris
- On The Cliffs Newport
- On A Theme In The Greek Anthology
- Maktoob
- Lyonesse
- Liebestod
- La Nue
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.