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:
- Farewell
- My Lady in Her White Silk Shawl by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Высоцкий – О конце войны
- The Brothers by William Wordsworth
- Growltiger’s Last Stand by T. S. Eliot
- Gertrude of Wyoming by Thomas Campbell
- Ballade Of The Royal Game Of Golf poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Эмиль Верхарн – Зимняя пора
- On the Beach at Night, Alone. by Walt Whitman
- The Secrets Of Divine Love Are To Be Kept by William Cowper
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- Sonnet 14: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck by William Shakespeare
- Алишер Навои – Кто на стезе любви един
- Ox Tamer, The. by Walt Whitman
- VII: Some Verses: On The Death of John Murray by William Alexander
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.