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:
- For A Gentleman, Who, Kissinge His Friend At His Departure Left A Signe Of Blood On Her by William Strode
- Shadow Overhead by Vaishnavi Prakash
- On the Nativity of Christ by William Dunbar
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- What the Coal-Heaver Said by Vachel Lindsay
- Иннокентий Анненский – Любовь к прошлому
- On A Thief (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы бдительны, мы тайн не разболтаем
- O aye my wife she dang me (Song) by Robert Burns
- From Milton: And did those feet by William Blake
- The Meditation Of The Old Fisherman by William Butler Yeats
- All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
- A Painting Morning
- Владимир Маяковский – Долг Украине
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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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.