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:
- Ольга Берггольц – Я тайно и горько ревную
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
- A Knocker poem – Zbigniew Herbert poems | Poetry Monster
- On Envy (From The Greek) by William Cowper
- Poem of Remembrance for a Girl or a Boy. by Walt Whitman
- In A Railroad Station by Sara Teasdale
- Lucky by Thomas Lux
- Dark Room( qua vadis) by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Олег Григорьев – Сказал я девушке кротко
- Sea God and the wind rose by Vinko Kalinić
- The Sun Underfoot Among The Sundews poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- The dawn by Sukumaran Devarajan
- Love’s Fitfulness poem – Alfred Austin
- Шарль Бодлер – Жажда небытия
- pissed-off cow by Raj Arumugam
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.