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:
- Election Ballad for Westerha’ by Robert Burns
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- The Dance At Darmstadt poem – Alfred Austin
- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home by Robert Hayden
- House For Sale by Vinita Agrawal
- Afternoon Rain in State Street poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Аля Кудряшева – Зима застыла среди теней
- The Virgin Maid of Orleans, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s sonnet: La Pucelle by T. Wignesan.
- Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps
- A dragonfly that committed suicide by Preeth Nambiar
- The Homestead by William Barnes
- Set out by Mahak Raithatha S
- Sonet 53 by William Alexander
- Владимир Костров – Памяти Николая Анциферова
- They Tell Of The Warsaw Uprising by Nijole Miliauskaite
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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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.