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:
- I know our friendship wil never end by Miraj Patel
- Robert Burns: Poem On Pastoral Poetry :
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Близ берегов
- The Ringlet poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Surreal landscapes by Sunil Sharma
- Владимир Высоцкий – В далёком созвездии Тау Кита
- Ballades II – Of The Book-Hunter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- A Net to Snare the Moonlight by Vachel Lindsay
- Implosions
- Guenevere by Sara Teasdale
- Robert Burns: My Heart’s In The Highlands:
- An Elegy upon the Death of the Dean of St. Paul’s, Dr. John by Thomas Carew
- Bothwell Castle by William Wordsworth
- Вероника Тушнова – В чем отказала я тебе
- March poem – A. E. Housman
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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.