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:
- Николай Карамзин – Сильфида
- Vision by Siegfried Sassoon
- Faith and Faiths by Tomás Ó Cárthaigh
- Ольга Берггольц – О да, простые, бедные слова
- Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Drum-Taps. by Walt Whitman
- Mediums. by Walt Whitman
- Владислав Крапивин – Спокойная ночь
- Sonet 52 by William Alexander
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабочий при капитализме работал из-под палки… (РОСТА №666)
- Николай Заболоцкий – Гроза идет
- Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments by William Shakespeare
- For What She Had Done by Shel Silverstein
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Купальские игрища
- Anthem For Good Fryday by William Strode
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
- Infelix
- Hemlock Furrows
- Genius
- Fragment
- Dying
- Dreams Beauty
- Depths
- Battle Stars
- Aspiration
- Answer Me
- Adelina Patti
- The Nuclear Ghost Towns
- The Conditional
- The Ugly Little Bird
- Not A Star
- Mountain Wellhead
- Lightning In The Dark Night Skies
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Immoral Laboratories
- Hope
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.