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:
- Interview With Joseph D’Agnese, Author Of Jersey Heat
- Владимир Высоцкий – Запись в книге почётных гостей Киевского завода шампанских вин
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прометей
- The Shepherd O’ The Farm by William Barnes
- Complaint Prometheus
- Юлия Друнина – Царевна
- Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- Влад Амелин – Приумножай добро
- Sir Galahad poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- Wayside Flowers by William Allingham
- The Flower-Fed Buffaloes by Vachel Lindsay
- Владимир Корнилов – Слепец
- Drink of This Cup by Thomas Moore
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
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
- Yasmini
- Yasin Khan
- Written In Cananore
- Wings
- When Love Is Over
- Verses
- Verses Faiz Ulla
- Verse By Taj Mahomed
- Vayu The Wind
- Valgovinds Song In The Spring
- Valgovinds Boat Song
- Unforgotten
- Unanswered
- Two Songs By Sitara Of Kashmir
- To The Unattainable
- To The Unattainable Lament Of Mahomed Akram
- To The Hills
- To M C N
- To Aziz Song Of Mahomed Akram
- Till I Wake
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.