A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
In merry old England it once was the rule
The King had his poet and also his fool
But now were so frugal I have you to know it
That Cibber can serve both for fool and for poet!
A few random poems:
- Prologue spoken at the Theatre of Dumfries by Robert Burns
- Olney Hymn 57: The New Convert by William Cowper
- Robert Burns: A Winter Night :
- Альфред де Мюссе – Печаль
- From The ‘Antigone’ by William Butler Yeats
- Never Give All The Heart by William Butler Yeats
- The Disquieting Muses by Sylvia Plath
- Impromptu on Mrs. Riddell’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Владимир Маяковский – Почему нет помощи от Румынии (Главполитпросвет №327)
- How I saved Planet Earth by Raj Arumugam
- Федор Тютчев – Как бестолковы числа эти
- Витя, Витенка, Витюша
- In Abeyance by Satish Verma
- Ольга Берггольц – Вот я выбирала для разлуки
- Free the Holy Land — a poem about Palestine
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
- Reverie Of Ormuz The Persian
- Reverie Of Mahomed Akram At The Tamarind Tank
- Request
- Reminiscence Of Mahomed Akram
- Protest By Zahir U Din
- Prayer
- Palm Trees By The Sea
- On The City Wall
- On Pilgrimage
- Ojira To Her Lover
- Oh Unforgotten And Only Lover
- Oh Masters
- Oh Life I Have Taken You For My Lover
- No Rival Like The Past
- Nay Not To Night
- My Paramour Was Loneliness
- My Desire
- Middle Age
- Memory
- Marriage Thoughts By Morsellin Khan
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.