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:
- The Flower-School by Rabindranath Tagore
- Dreadful by Shel Silverstein
- Thistles by Ted Hughes
- Владимир Маяковский – Не эти правильно Октябрь празднуют… (РОСТА №398)
- Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
- Николай Гумилев – Канцона (Бывает в жизни человека)
- Нина Воронель – Одержимые
- Green Fields by W. S. Merwin
- Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms by Thomas Moore
- The First Part: Sonnet 4 – Fair is my yoke, though grievous be my pains, by William Drummond
- The Passing Of The Primroses poem – Alfred Austin
- Sexual eyes poem – Andrew Vassell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Most Precious by R. L. Karlowsky
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Бокала полного веселый вид мне люб
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.