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 Fathers by Siegfried Sassoon
- Нина Пикулева – Яна-Несмеяна
- Lover’s Gifts XLVII: The Road Is by Rabindranath Tagore
- Doomes-Day: The Eleventh Houre by William Alexander
- Money, for a Decent Human Life without You by Mike Yuan
- Heaven by Philip Levine
- Flight To Nature by William Gilmore Simms
- In the Black Forest poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Evenén in the Village by William Barnes
- Олег Бундур – Я вырасту, мама
- Parody on a Haiku by Issa by Monty Gilmer
- The Pleasures of Memory
- Evolution by Sharmagne Leland-St. John
- Василий Жуковский – Из альбома, подаренного Ростопчиной (Пушкин)
- At Delphi poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.