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:
- let the calm of the evening by Raj Arumugam
- The Bistro Styx by Rita Dove
- The Drunkards in the Street by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: Second Epistle To J. Lapraik:
- Альфред де Мюссе – Слова отчаянья прекрасней всех других
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Sonnet 141: In faith, I do not love thee with mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- In The Valley Of The Elwy poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Владимир Степанов – Тула-город мастеров
- Passage to India. by Walt Whitman
- The house where I was born (05) by Yves Bonnefoy
- The Municipal Gallery Revisited by William Butler Yeats
- In Thoughtless Mind by Satish Verma
- Спиридон Дрожжин – Первая борозда
- minding love by Raj Arumugam
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
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.