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:
- When The Two Sisters Go To Fetch Water by Rabindranath Tagore
- To E. Fitzgerald: Tiresias poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Robert Burns: Open The Door To Me, Oh:
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- Владимир Высоцкий – Грицюку
- Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day poem – Alexander Pope
- October by Siegfried Sassoon
- Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
- PERCEPTION by Satish Verma
- On the Portrait of Two Beautiful Young People poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Ah Poverties, Wincings and Sulky Retreats. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Address To A Haggis:
- Владимир Маяковский – Война окончена… (РОСТА №898)
- AN EPITAPH UPON A CHILD by Robert Herrick
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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.