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:
- The Sea And the Hills by Rudyard Kipling
- Ugliest Man In Town by Shel Silverstein
- Валерий Брюсов – Из детской книжки
- Composed In The Valley Near Dover, On The Day Of Landing by William Wordsworth
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Негибнущий аромат
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ее ароматом неслышно ветер повеет
- Corona by Paul Celan
- The January Birds by Maurice Riordan
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Киклоп драма сатиров (перевод)
- To A Young Lady Who Sent Me A Laurel Crown poem – John Keats poems
- The Gardener XXVII: Trust Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- English Poetry. Mark Akenside. The Pleasures of Imagination. Марк Эйкенсайд.
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- Lines of John M’Murdo by Robert Burns
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
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
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.