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:
- The Three Gentle Shepherds poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- To The Don poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Над синим мраком ночи длинной
- Sonnet IX. Keen, Fitful Gusts Are poem – John Keats poems
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- Николай Заболоцкий – Счастливый день
- Огюст Барбье – Тициан
- Cino poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Eclogue VIII by Virgil
- Алексей Жемчужников – Воспоминание в деревне о Петербурге
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно революцию празднуют… (РОСТА №399)
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 07 by Torquato Tasso
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Farewell To Spring poem – Alfred Austin
- human_charms.html
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
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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.