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:
- Robert Burns: Ca’ The Yowes To The Knowes: Second Version
- Monster’s Cave
- The Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Return Of The Heroes by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Winter Twilight poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- Lines on Curll poem – Alexander Pope
- Sonnet (XI) : I know me and I do believe in the causation by Neelam Sinha
- On Delia (Bid Adieu, My Sad Heart) by William Cowper
- The Gardener XLIII: No, My Friends by Rabindranath Tagore
- Song—Bessy and her Spinnin Wheel by Robert Burns
- One Night, The Fukien Robbers poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Ship Starting, The. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Британишский – Дом, как бог
- Олег Григорьев – Папа вазу опрокинул
- Stanzas poem – John Keats poems
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
- Note to Reality by Tony Hoagland
- National Trust by Tony Harrison
- Memory As a Hearing Aid by Tony Hoagland
- Marked with D. by Tony Harrison
- Lucky by Tony Hoagland
- Long Distance II by Tony Harrison
- Long Distance I by Tony Harrison
- Jet by Tony Hoagland
- Tony Harrison – Tony Harrison
- In Praise of Their Divorce by Tony Hoagland
- I Have News For You by Tony Hoagland
- Heredity by Tony Harrison
- Grammar by Tony Hoagland
- Don’t Tell Anyone by Tony Hoagland
- Disappointment by Tony Hoagland
- Coming and Going by Tony Hoagland
- Book Ends by Tony Harrison
- Big Grab by Tony Hoagland
- Bible Study by Tony Hoagland
- Beauty by Tony Hoagland
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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.