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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Еврипид. Киклоп драма сатиров (перевод)
- Nimrod in September by Siegfried Sassoon
- Master Valluvan, the long-misunderstood Tamil Mentor by T. Wignesan
- Владимир Британишский – Буссоль
- To The University Of Cambridge, In New-England by Phillis Wheatley
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Прощание с саблею
- Mesopotamia by Rudyard Kipling
- To A Cloud by William Cullen Bryant
- A Bay In Anglesey poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Вероника Тушнова – Ты не любишь считать облака
- did you die, Ophelia? by Raj Arumugam
- Denner’s Old Woman by William Cowper
- WHAT ENDING by Satish Verma
- Synesthesia by Orla McGreevy
- Robert Burns: My Collier Laddie:
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.