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:
- Алишер Навои – У пери — точка вместо уст
- Иван Бунин – Ночь идет, и темнеет
- Sonnet 07 poem – John Milton poems
- Others, I Am Not the First poem – A. E. Housman
- Олег Бундур – Тропа
- Sonnet : To Eva by Sylvia Plath
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Francesca poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Evenèn, An’ Maidens Out At Door by William Barnes
- Владимир Маяковский – Сказка для шахтера-друга про шахтерки, чуни и каменный уголь
- Beachy Blues poem – Andrew Neil Maternick poems | Poems and Poetry
- Новелла Матвеева – Пушкин
- Владимир Маяковский – Рабкор (Лбом пробив безграмотья горы)
- Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns
- Олег Бундур – Дедушка воспитывает папу
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
- You are coming! by Preeth Nambiar
- Wish If You…! by Praveen Parasar
- When the universe speaks by Preeth Nambiar
- WATER LILLIES AND ADVICE by PEGGY AYLSWORTH
- Waking up on a rainy morning by Preeth Nambiar
- Wake Oslo up again by Philo Ikonya
- Towards The sky by Pushpendra Singh Baghel
- To Double Lock by Pierre Reverdy
- The way aboard by Preeth Nambiar
- The Theatre of Illusion by Pierre Corneille
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- The Search by Pornika Ganguly
- The Magic by Preeth Nambiar
- The Love! by Praveen Parasar
- The Last Letter by Priyanka Tungana
- The Fragrance of life by Preeth Nambiar
- The Deeper Shadow by Pierre Reverdy
- The Actor by Preeth Nambiar
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- Termites by Piera Chen
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
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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.