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:
- England! The Time Is Come When Thou Should’st Wean by William Wordsworth
- The Human Tragedy ACT I poem – Alfred Austin
- An Army Corps on the March. by Walt Whitman
- Алексей Плещеев – Дети века все больные
- Наум Коржавин – Друзьям
- Weird-Bird by Shel Silverstein
- Poem on Pastoral Poetry by Robert Burns
- A Schoolyard Shame by Ryan Isaacson
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
- Wish If You…! by Praveen Parasar
- come, sun rays by Raj Arumugam
- Алексей Толстой – Вeсeнние чувства
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Любить
- Владимир Маяковский – Буржуй, прощайся с приятными деньками
- Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight by William Shakespeare
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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.