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:
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
- What Reward? by Winifred Mary Letts
- Clear, with Light, Variable Winds poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- An Enigma by William Cowper
- Advice to the Ladies by William Somervile
- Ad Nepotem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Voice by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Тропики
- A Magic Moment I Remember poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Омар Хайям – Люблю вино, ловлю веселья миг
- Crystal by Paul Celan
- Far Within Us #3 by Vasko Popa
- The Tears In Cupid’s Eyes by Tupac Shakur
- Наталья Шевченко – Прости прости Меня Отец
- Brink Of Eternity by Rabindranath Tagore
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.