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:
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- All That’s Past by Walter de la Mare
- Edmonton, thy cemetery by Stevie Smith
- Latino Author and Educator Provides Tools for College and Life Success
- Омар Хайям – Если ты не впадаешь в молитвенный раж
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Утренние песни
- And love has changed to kindliness by Rupert Brooke
- Her Reply by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты все еще тревожишься — что будет
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion by William Butler Yeats
- Константин Бальмонт – Молитва последняя
- Pensive on Her Dead Gazing, I Heard the Mother of All. by Walt Whitman
- FREEDOM by Mac McGovern
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Beginning by Rabindranath Tagore
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.