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:
- Владимир Костров – Закат приморский умирает
- Song at the Feast of Brougham Castle by William Wordsworth
- Song—A Waukrife Minnie by Robert Burns
- Happiness poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Drowning. Not Waving by P.J.Reed
- Exodus by Michael Nikoletseas
- Shot? So Quick, So Clean an Ending? poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet 38: How can my Muse want subject to invent by William Shakespeare
- Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid’s Metamorphosis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Orlando Furioso Canto 24 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Deep In The Night by Sara Teasdale
- On A Fowler, By Isidorus by William Cowper
- I Would Live In Your Love by Sara Teasdale
- Mr Anonymous, a life by Raj Arumugam
- Crazy Jane On The Mountain by William Butler Yeats
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
- The Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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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.