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:
- Never Bite A Married Woman On The Thigh by Shel Silverstein
- Reading Moby-Dick at 30,000 Feet by Tony Hoagland
- Robert Burns: Scots’ Prologue For Mr. Sutherland: On his Benefit-Night, at the Theatre, Dumfries.
- Валерий Брюсов – Городу дифирамб
- A Riddle: On A Kiss by William Strode
- A Prayer For Artemis
- Зинаида Александрова – Лошадка
- Алишер Навои – Кто на стезе любви един
- Sonnet 05
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Ревность
- Song—The Tear-drop—“Wae is my heart” by Robert Burns
- Conversation Among The Ruins by Sylvia Plath
- Angels By The Door by William Barnes
- Keepe On Your Maske And Hide Your Eye by William Strode
- Leda And The Swan by William Butler Yeats
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
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.