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:
- God’s Wheel by Shel Silverstein
- Doubt by Sara Teasdale
- X: Some Verses: To His Most Affectionate Friend Mr. Lithgow by William Alexander
- Жан де Лафонтен – Волк и Конь
- Will Remain Unseen by Vasil Slavov
- Epitaph On Fop, A Dog Belonging To Lady Throckmorton by William Cowper
- Василий Жуковский – Мина
- Duino Elegies: The Tenth Elegy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Memorials Of A Tour In Scotland, 1803 X. Rob Roy’s Grave by William Wordsworth
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall by Robert Herrick
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мог бы быть я при тёще, при тесте
- We Miss You So Much by Ronald G. Auguste
- Oh My Father, I am Yusif by Mahmoud Darwish
- Address To Kilchurn Castle, Upon Loch Awe by William Wordsworth
- March poem – A. E. Housman
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
- love.html
- lord_god_have_mercy_on_me.html
- libation.html
- least_in_a_list.html
- interpret_the_light.html
- innocence.html
- in_the_stone_i_rooted.html
- in_between_the_strophes.html
- human_joys.html
- human_charms.html
- he_who_creates_re_creates_himself.html
- hai_kou_unpublished.html
- hai_kou.html
- greek_light.html
- greece.html
- golden_eangle.html
- gesture_theory_a_villanelle.html
- gem_immortality.html
- fruit_leaf_roots_flowers.html
- first_verse.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.