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:
- Николай Языков – Тригорское
- A Rustic Seat Near The Sea by William Lisle Bowles
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Buddha’s Laugh by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Sporting Acquaintances by Siegfried Sassoon
- Иннокентий Анненский – Листы
- Climbing poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: Epitaph On John Rankine:
- Аля Кудряшева – Я работаю солнечной батареей
- Hurrahing In Harvest poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Гиппиус – Друг, скажу тебе несказанное
- Владимир Луговской – Ночной патруль
- Федор Сологуб – Под холодною властью тумана
- Statistics by William Butler Yeats
- Love thy Country and Do a useful Act – Gurazada by Vijay Narayana Chilaka
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:
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Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
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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.