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:
- Lines to Mr. John Kennedy by Robert Burns
- Rapture by Neil Outar
- Snow by Walter de la Mare
- England! awake! awake! awake! by William Blake
- Эмиль Верхарн – Вот лампа зажжена
- The Breast by Russell Edson
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 05 by Torquato Tasso
- Awed by her splendor by Sappho
- Dark Wood, Dark Water by Sylvia Plath
- Aftermath poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- O Beauty, Passing Beauty! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Олег Бундур – Вид с задней парты
- Владимир Маяковский – Нам бы только вот это воскресити… (РОСТА)
- Ольга Берггольц – Сейчас тебе всё кажется тобой
- Learn
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.