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:
- Release poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- Nigra Sum poem – Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson poems | Poems and Poetry
- On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic by William Wordsworth
- Epitaph in a Church-Yard in Charleston, South Carolina poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Февраль
- On Time poem – John Milton poems
- Ольга Берггольц – Два стихотворения дочерям
- Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow by William Shakespeare
- Epistle to James Tennant of Glenconner by Robert Burns
- On Friendship by Phillis Wheatley
- Allegory by Thomas Hood
- Зинаида Александрова – Подснежник
- Вера Павлова – Утро вечера мудренее
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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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.