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:
- Олег Григорьев – Лежу я в одиночестве
- To Heal by Nithin Purple
- Borow
- A dream is a butterfly poem – Amy Michelle Mosier poems | Poems and Poetry
- I Know an Aged Man Constrained to Dwell by William Wordsworth
- A Lover poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Бруклинский мост
- Envoi poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Иван Мятлев – Розы
- Robert Burns: Duncan Davison :
- Гавриил Державин – К силуэту Ивана Ивановича Хемницера
- Вероника Тушнова – Кто-то в проруби тонет
- Give Me Back My Rags #4 by Vasko Popa
- Little Fugue by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Праздновать способы разные, как мы праздник отпразднуем? (РОСТА № 383)
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
- Nominalism Is A Liquid Kuhi
- My Mother’s Grief
- If Truth In Hearts That Perish
- I Havent Betrayed You My Hometown
- Eclipse Of Love
- Divided Passion
- Death039s Claim
- Dear Bhikkhu A Eulogy
- As With A Senryu S Hardening Ridge
- A Gogyohka And The Forgotten Panopticon
- A Faded Postcard Is A Tanka Daydream
- The Dead Woman poem – Pablo Neruda
- If Truth in Hearts That Perish poem – A. E. Housman
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy poem – A. E. Housman
- Diffugere Nives poem – A. E. Housman
- Water Strider
- The Infernal Regions
- Honeycomb
- Dark Matter
- Wet City Night
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.