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:
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter by Robert Frost
- A Woman Unconscious by Ted Hughes
- The Poet’s Grave by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Николай Тихонов – Крутили мельниц диких жернова
- The Merman poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Without Ceremony by Thomas Hardy
- To A Young Writer by Yvor Winters
- To a Gentleman and Lady on the Death of the Lady’s Brother and Sister by Phillis Wheatley
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- five moons for earth by Raj Arumugam
- The Lantern Out Of Doors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Омар Хайям – Цветам и запахам владеть тобой доколе
- Алишер Навои – У пери — точка вместо уст
- Symbols by William Butler Yeats
- Mother Earth; Her Beauty And Her Destruction by TMBedell
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.