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:
- In Uncertainty To A Lady poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Вера Павлова – Телефонные кнопки
- salamis_quot.html
- Kore by Robert Creeley
- Владимир Высоцкий – Сивка-Бурка
- Astrophel and Stella: XV by Sir Philip Sidney
- Robert Burns: Verses To Clarinda: Sent with a Pair of Wine-Glasses.
- Hymn by Sidney Godolphin
- Sonnet 64: When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced by William Shakespeare
- Альфред де Мюссе – Вспомни обо мне
- For Someone, Somewhere, In Relation by Shaunna Harper
- Владимир Степанов – Робот (Буква Р)
- Stacking The Straw poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- William Cullen Bryant – William Cullen Bryant
- From the bay at Tago poem – Yamabe no Akahito poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Sacrifice And Love
- Rule I By Eric Mottram Stop Writing Literature You Garrulous Indian
- Poetry And Politics
- Poem Stories
- Plato
- Peace Universal Good
- Paralipomemnon
- Our Refuge
- One Sweet White Light
- New Land
- Motionless Body
- Mother
- Minimalism And The Elm Choka
- Mark
- Love Flower
- Love
- Lord God Have Mercy On Me
- Libation
- Least In A List
- Interpret The Light
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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.