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:
- New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo
- I Am Part Of The Load by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Юнна Мориц – Попрыгать-поиграть
- Омар Хайям – Кому там от Любви покой необходим
- Gehazi by Rudyard Kipling
- AN INSPIRATIONAL VILLANELLE: by Manish Thakur
- Олег Сердобольский – У сосульки льет из носа
- A Point Of Honour poem – Alfred Austin
- Silent consolation by Tanisha Avarsekar
- The Owl poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Иван Мятлев – Наставление Гр[афине] Р[астопчиной]
- Robert Burns: Handsome Nell:
- Yesterday by W. S. Merwin
- Василий Курочкин – Мчит меня в твои объятья
- A Poet by Thomas Hardy
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 Jungle Flower
- The Hut
- The Hospital On The Shore
- The Garden Of Kama Kama The Indian Eros
- The Garden By The Bridge
- The First Wife
- The First Lover
- The Dying Prince
- The Convert
- The Cactus
- The Cactus Thicket
- The Bride
- The Aloe
- Syed Amir
- Surface Rights
- Surf Song
- Sunstroke
- Story Of Udaipore Told By Lalla Ji The Priest
- Story Of Lilavanti
- Story By Lalla Ji The Priest
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.