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:
- Низами Гянджеви – Если б радость не лучилась
- Низами Гянджеви – Когда ее ароматом неслышно ветер повеет
- On The Author Of Letters On Literature by William Cowper
- Владимир Набоков – Я на море гляжу из мраморного храма
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заживайте, раны мои
- Sonnet 151: Love is too young to know what conscience is by William Shakespeare
- Robert Burns: Epigrams Against The Earl Of Galloway:
- Journey Of Life by Nikhil Srinivas
- Sonnet Viii
- Acrostic : Georgiana Augusta Keats poem – John Keats poems
- Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair by William Shakespeare
- Convalescent poem – Ambrose Bierce poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Cat Called Shan by Pamela Griffiths
- The Passing Of The Century poem – Alfred Austin
- UNEVEN PATH by Satish Verma
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.