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:
- Николай Заболоцкий – Вчера, о смерти размышляя
- Bereavement by William Lisle Bowles
- Robert Burns: Young Peggy Blooms:
- Birdsong by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Survivor by Primo Levi
- Robert Burns: The Parting Kiss:
- Natural Theology by Rudyard Kipling
- Don’t Worry by John Oxenham
- Robert Burns: The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water: To the noble Duke of Athole.
- From Afar by Rabindranath Tagore
- Water by Wendell Berry
- Acon and Rhodope by Walter Savage Landor
- Jacaranda by Norma Martiri
- Владимир Британишский – Чернышев переулок и мост Чернышев
- Robert Burns: A Mother’s Lament For the Death of Her Son.:
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.