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:
- Sonnet # 9 by Luis A. Estable
- Михаил Лермонтов – Хаджи Абрек
- The Fool Errant poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 83. Dip down upon the northern shore poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Ион (перевод)
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись на иллюминацию 1747 года перед зимним домом
- Омар Хайям – Ну, допустим, что будет тебе и почет
- The Quarry by William Vaughn Moody
- The Scissors-Grinder by Vachel Lindsay
- Night At The Marina by Shreekumar Varma
- The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: La Pucelle by T. Wignesan.
- Владимир Британишский – Дом (Время ведь с годами ведь)
- To Heal by Nithin Purple
- The First Part: Sonnet 11 – Lamp of heaven’s crystal hall that brings the hours, by William Drummond
- Федор Тютчев – К портрету государственного канцлера, князя А.М. Горчакова
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
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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.