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:
- The Discovery of the Kama Sutra by Raj Arumugam
- Elegy, Imitated From One Of Akenside’s Blank-Verse Inscriptions by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- every_hour_henceforth.html
- Михаил Лермонтов – Баллада (В избушке позднею порою)
- Paradise Regained: The Third Book poem – John Milton poems
- Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Madeira From The Sea by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Высоцкий – Возле города Пекина
- Et Le Marbre Creuse… by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Явление божества
- Sonnet III by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 87: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Жемчужников – Прелюдия к прощальным песням
- Nevertheless by Marianne Moore
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
- The Poetic Principle by Mark Olynyk
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
- The joyful things in life by Martin Smith
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The End of the Argument by Martina Reisz Newberry
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- The Dreadful Has Already Happened by Mark Strand
- The Dragon and The Unicorn by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
- Never Sure Which You Are by Mary Etta Metcalf
- The Last Wolf by Mary TallMountain
- Nestling by Mark R Slaughter
- The Homeless Man by Mary TallMountain
- My Words Embrace by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Telescope by Mark R Slaughter
- My Mother On An Evening In Late Summer by Mark Strand
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.