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:
- Robert Burns: I’ll Aye Ca’ In By Yon Town:
- Isabella; Or, The Pot Of Basil: A Story From Boccaccio poem – John Keats poems
- Низами Гянджеви – Спустилась ночь
- Second Epistle to Davie by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns Country: O Tibbie, I Hae Seen The Day:
- O Daedalus, Fly Away Home by Robert Hayden
- Corn A-Turnen Yollow by William Barnes
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Олег Бундур – Из магазина
- The Eye-Mote by Sylvia Plath
- colors_and_sounds.html
- Николай Глазков – Баллада о трактористе и ритуальном камне
- The Giants In Treädes by William Barnes
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени — копенгаген 1969
- See, how I love you by Vinko Kalinić
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
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Shattered Head
- Rural Reflections
- Prospective Immigrants Please Note
- Power
- Planetarium
- Paula Becker To Clara Westhoff
- Our Whole Life
- Orion
- On Edges
- November 1968
- My Mouth Hovers Across Your Breasts
- Moving In Winter
- Miracle Ice Cream
- Living In Sin
- Integrity
- In Those Years
- In The Evening
- In A Classroom
- Implosions
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.