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:
- Юлия Друнина – Я, признаться, сберечь не сумела шинели
- Василий Жуковский – К Перовскому (Счастливец, ею ты любим)
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law
- Sleep
- What Being in Rank-Old Nature poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Hint From The Mountains For Certain Political Pretenders by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче он закончил вехи
- Addressed To Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Khabaram raseed imshab poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Erin, Oh Erin by Thomas Moore
- Robert Burns: O Let Me In Thes Ae Night:
- All These I Loved by Rabindranath Tagore
- Юлия Друнина – Есть праздники, что навсегда с тобой
- What the Captain Said at the Point-to-Point by Siegfried Sassoon
- Алексей Жемчужников – Современному гражданину
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.