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:
- He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by William Butler Yeats
- Олег Бундур – Из магазина
- Evenèn Light by William Barnes
- Birth Story by Rabindranath Tagore
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись благоверному и Великому князю Александру Невскому
- Motto prefixed to the Author’s first Publication by Robert Burns
- “If I Must Go” by Sara Teasdale
- Нина Воронель – Меня пугает власть моя над миром
- An Opera House poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- Sonnet 15 poem – John Milton poems
- The Weaver by Nijole Miliauskaite
- This Evening Also by Paul Celan
- The Widow at Windsor by Rudyard Kipling
- A Farewel To America to Mrs. S. W. by Phillis Wheatley
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:
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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.