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:
- Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves by William Butler Yeats
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Нилу
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Тихо пальцы опускаю
- The Bugler’s First Communion poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Британишский – Март солнечный
- A Man Young And Old: III. The Mermaid by William Butler Yeats
- The Dark Hour by William Henry Davies
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 55. The wish, that of the living whol poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Paradise Lost: Book 04 poem – John Milton poems
- Олег Бундур – Что будет, если
- A MEAN IN OUR MEANS by Robert Herrick
- John Milton As Author of Pornographic Verse: An Extempore Upon a Faggot
- On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley
- Sonnet 52: So am I as the rich whose blessèd key by William Shakespeare
- Вера Полозкова – Для неровного счета
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
- discovery.html
- day_dream.html
- cocoon_for_a_skeleton.html
- cinema_screen.html
- chaplin.html
- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
- black_on_black.html
- black_morning_lovesong.html
- birch_tree.html
- betrayal.html
- bells_pool_and_sleep.html
- attack_on_the_ad_man.html
- any_man_speaks.html
- woken_up_by_beautiful_dreams.html
- was_then.html
- vestiges.html
- un-chien-andalou-an-andalusian-dog.html
- the_poet_angels_who_came_to_dinner.html
- the_nomad039s_vision_ode_to_a_skylark_dressed_in_black.html
- the_man_that_poetry_made.html
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.