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:
- Омар Хайям – Кто розу нежную любви привил
- Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns
- English Poetry. Madison Julius Cawein. In June. Мэдисон Джулиус Кавейн.
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Светлая заутреня
- When ‘Omer Smote ‘Is Bloomin’ Lyre by Rudyard Kipling
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- The Blessed Birth by Vasishta Sharma Gudi
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- София Парнок – И голос окликнул тебя среди ночи
- Bob The Fiddler by William Barnes
- Вера Павлова – В ранец тетрадки собраны
- The Ballad Of Moll Magee by William Butler Yeats
- Ольга Берггольц – Ни до серебряной и ни до золотой
- Алексей Толстой – Шумит на дворе непогода
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
- Body Script by Satish Verma
- Blue Mountains by Satish Verma
- Blistering Attack by Satish Verma
- Blemishes by Satish Verma
- Battle For Madness by Satish Verma
- Bare Tongue by Satish Verma
- Backtracking by Satish Verma
- AWAY FROM HOME by Satish Verma
- Astigmatism by Satish Verma
- Armless Enemies by Satish Verma
- Animation by Satish Verma
- Ancient Sins by Satish Verma
- Anarchy by Satish Verma
- An Art by Satish Verma
- Afterimages by Satish Verma
- A Saint Between Us by Satish Verma
- A River Flows Underground by Satish Verma
- A Killing by Satish Verma
- A DARK HOUSE by Satish Verma
- A Civil War by Satish Verma
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.