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:
- Davideis A Sacred Poem Of The Troubles Of David Excerpt
- Олег Григорьев – Я взял бумагу и перо
- English Poetry. Henry Livingston. To the Memory of Sarah Livingston. Генри Ливингстон.
- Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea poem – Alexander Pope
- Николай Заболоцкий – Испытание воли
- Waldenses by William Wordsworth
- The Otter by Seamus Heaney
- Advice: A Satire. by Tobias Smollett
- Out Of The Window
- Владимир Маяковский – Почему нет помощи от Румынии (Главполитпросвет №327)
- The First Lover
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man poem – A. E. Housman
- The (REAL) Tale of the Tortoise and the Hare by Ross D Tyler
- The Bombardment poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale
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
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- Kyrenaikos
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- Vivien
- I Loved
- Virginibus Puerisque
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- Fragments
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Eudaemon
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
More external links (open in a new tab):
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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.