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:
- Юлия Друнина – Запас прочности
- Miss Worthington by Rose Mary Boehm
- Sancta Maria, Succurre Miseris poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Британишский – В Емуртлинском форпосте сибирских драгун
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 02 – part 01 by Torquato Tasso
- Blue Mountains by Satish Verma
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Н. Ф. Щербине
- Vagueness Petrified by Thonda Sri Indrani
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect by William Shakespeare
- In Memoriam F.O.S. by Sara Teasdale
- Written In Early Youth. The Time,–An Autumnal Evening by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Shrike by Sylvia Plath
- Вероника Тушнова – Кто-то в проруби тонет
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Богомольное
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
- A Song by Thomas Carew
- A prayer to the Wind by Thomas Carew
- A Divine Mistress by Thomas Carew
- A Cruel Mistress. by Thomas Carew
- Specula by Thomas Edward Brown
- Salve! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Risus Dei by Thomas Edward Brown
- Pain by Thomas Edward Brown
- Opifex by Thomas Edward Brown
- My Garden by Thomas Edward Brown
- Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Jessie by Thomas Edward Brown
- If Thou Could’st Empty All Thyself Of Self by Thomas Edward Brown
- Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
- I bended unto me a Bough by Thomas Edward Brown
- Dora by Thomas Edward Brown
- Disguises by Thomas Edward Brown
- Time of Roses by Thomas Hood
- Tim Turpin by Thomas Hood
- The World is with Me by Thomas Hood
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.