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:
- Zellen Woone’s Honey To Buy Zome’hat Sweet by William Barnes
- A Slice Of School by Vaishnavi Prakash
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Степан Щипачев – Шар земной
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- An Ode in Time of Hesitation by William Vaughn Moody
- Алексей Толстой – Войдем сюда; здесь меж руин
- When I Came Last to Ludlow poem – A. E. Housman
- The Earth Trembles by Shahida Latif
- The Gardener XXXIV: Do Not Go, My Love by Rabindranath Tagore
- Иван Бунин – Пустыня, грусть в степных просторах
- Robert Burns: Had I The Wyte? She Bade Me:
- Валерий Брюсов – Из арабской лирики отрывок
- Аля Кудряшева – Какое там говорить. Я дышу с трудом
- Astigmatism poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
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
- Arms and the Man by Siegfried Sassoon
- Arcady Unheeding by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ancient History by Siegfried Sassoon
- Ancestors by Siegfried Sassoon
- An Old French Poet by Siegfried Sassoon
- Alone by Siegfried Sassoon
- Aftermath by Siegfried Sassoon
- Absolution by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Working Party by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Whispered Tale by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Wanderer by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Subaltern by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Poplar and the Moon by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Mystic As Soldier by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Letter Home by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Child’s Prayer by Siegfried Sassoon
- Night Launch by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Long For This World by Sophie Hannah
- LIGHT ECHOES by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- Life Brings Me to this Journey. by Stephen Sweitzer
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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.