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:
- Sonnet 93: So shall I live, supposing thou art true by William Shakespeare
- Epigram on Andrew Turner by Robert Burns
- Владимир Британишский – Перед дверью
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- Darkness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
- Нина Гаген-Торн – Тихо пальцы опускаю
- The Frantic by Mark Miller
- The Craftsmen Of The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Владимир Британишский – Емуртла
- Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight by William Shakespeare
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- La Nue
- Cornish Cliffs poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Only Thee by Rabindranath Tagore
- Hunger and Thirst by Muhammad Dawood Jan
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
- To A Little Girl That Has Told A Lie
- Guillaume de Lorris Belated: A Vision of Italy by Ezra Pound
- An Ode to the Democratic Rat
- Sonnet, an encyclopedic definition
- To A Feminist
- 对于女权主义者
- To the Rat’s Pencil
- 致老鼠的铅笔
- Toward Salvation
- My rat
- I Love My Rat
- 我爱我的老鼠
- Афанасий Фет – Сад весь в цвету
- Impostor’s Coronation
- Monster’s Cave
- 白色四月
- White April
- 我被包围了
- Surrounded
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.