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:
- Cinema Therapy and The MovieMaking Process
- Crowdie ever mair (Song) by Robert Burns
- Владимир Высоцкий – Нынче он закончил вехи
- Loving In Truth, And Fain In Verse My Love To Show by Sir Philip Sidney
- Николай Гербель – Введение к поэме
- Flying Home by Sudeep Sen
- Омар Хайям – Чем ниже человек душой, тем выше задирает нос
- Аля Кудряшева – Октябрь был дождем, непонятным месяцем
- Man In Black by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – На острове необитаемом
- Ольга Берггольц – Я так хочу, так верю, так люблю
- To an Early Daffodil poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Hymn To Adversity by Thomas Gray
- I Ask Someone To Resolve by Shahida Latif
- Summer Stillness poem – Aldous Huxley poems | Poetry Monster
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
- Out Of The Window
- On The Bus
- Minoan Porcelain
- Love Song
- Lapr S Midi Dun Faune
- Italy
- Inspiration
- In Uncertainty To A Lady
- Doors Of The Temple
- Darkness
- Crapulous Impression
- Complaint Of A Poet Manqu
- By The Fire
- Books And Thoughts
- Anniversaries
- A Melody By Scarlatti
- A Little Memory
- The Storm
- The State
- The Poor Fisherman
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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.