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:
- Иван Бунин – Нет солнца, но светлы пруды
- A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring by William Butler Yeats
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Constantias Song
- To Alfred Tennyson poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 132: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me by William Shakespeare
- Scars on Paper by Marilyn Hacker
- Hast Thou A Song For A Flower by William Gilmore Simms
- Владимир Маяковский – Сплетник
- The Dancer At Cruachan And Cro-Patrick by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка для шахтера-друга про шахтерки, чуни и каменный уголь
- The Woman In The Rye by Thomas Hardy
- Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой
- The Commitment by Rob Leatherman Sr.
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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.