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:
- Out At Plough by William Barnes
- Excerpt – “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Roald Dahl
- Анатолий Жигулин – Кордон Песчаный
- Владимир Маяковский – Гимн судье
- The Spring
- София Парнок – Рондель
- Oh You Are Coming by Sara Teasdale
- The Hero — English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Couplet 2 poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Лермонтов – В рядах стояли безмолвной толпой
- Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns
- Ольга Берггольц – Придешь, как приходят слепые
- Untitled VIII by Yunus Emre
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Untitled XXIII by Yunus Emre
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.