A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
To fix the ground where Paradise was placed;
Mind not their learned whims and idle talk;
Here, here’s the place where these bright angels walk.
A few random poems:
- Prayer For Lightning poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Wintry Picture (II) poem – Alfred Austin
- A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
- Do Not Stand At My Grave and Weep by Mary Frye
- Вера Полозкова – Францу Кафке
- It was you, Atthis, who said by Sappho
- Владимир Маяковский – Вот какое обещание молодой солдат дает… (Главполитпросвет №376)
- THE ROAD OF ANGEL poem – kapardeli eftichia poems | Poems and Poetry
- Robert Burns: The Lad They Ca’Jumpin John:
- A Jog-Trot Pair by Thomas Hardy
- Hymn poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- Sonnet 145: Those lips that Love’s own hand did make by William Shakespeare
- On The Way To The Bottom by Shel Silverstein
- Song of the Wise Children by Rudyard Kipling
- On Fair Compassion by Nithin Purple
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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.