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:
- Broken Love by William Blake
- I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson by Wilfred Owen
- Repentance by William Wordsworth
- Beautiful Balmoral by William Topaz McGonagall
- I Have Loved Hours At Sea by Sara Teasdale
- When The Green Lies Over The Earth poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: On Elphinstone’s Translation Of Martial’s Epigrams:
- Николай Языков – Альпийская песня
- What Happened by Rudyard Kipling
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Robert Burns: Auld Lang Syne:
- Isabella or The Pot of Basil poem – John Keats poems
- To the Garden the World. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Маяковский – Профплакаты
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
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:
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.