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:
- Василий Жуковский – Цветок
- Dion [See Plutarch] by William Wordsworth
- The Man Who Dreamed Of Faeryland by William Butler Yeats
- Robert Burns: Up In The Morning Early:
- The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt) poem – Alexander Pope
- Михаил Кузмин – Туманный день пройдет уныло
- Иван Киуру – Кот и жук
- Федор Сологуб – Ландыш пленительный
- Ibant Obscur? by Thomas Edward Brown
- Song by William Somervile
- Sonnet V by Mahmoud Darwish
- Владимир Маяковский – Стой!.. (РОСТА №416)
- Гавриил Державин – Охотник
- Аля Кудряшева – В этом городе птичий полет шелестит быстролистыми кленами
- A Character by William Wordsworth
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.