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:
- To a person, they say, frigid, Translation of Paul Verlaine’s poem: A celle que l’on fit froide by T. Wignesan
- Михаил Лермонтов – Беглец
- Beggars by William Wordsworth
- A Soldier by Robert Frost
- Promise Ya by Miraj Patel
- The Music Of The Rains – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Gentle Heart, Indulge Thy Dreaming by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- The Titanic poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- A Man Young And Old: I. First Love by William Butler Yeats
- And In Wonder And Amazement I Sing by Rabindranath Tagore
- Lines By Taj Mahomed
- The Triumph Of Achilles by Paul Celan
- Николай Языков – Записки А. С. Дириной
- The House Of Dreams by Sara Teasdale
- Song Of A Dream by Sarojini Naidu
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
- La Nue
- Kyrenaikos
- Juvenilia An Ode To Natural Beauty
- I Loved
- I Have A Rendezvous With Death
- Fragments
- Eudaemon
- El Extraviado
- Do You Remember Once
- Coucy
- Champagne 1914 15
- Broceliande
- Bellinglise
- At The Tomb Of Napoleon
- Ariosto Orlando Furioso Canto X 91 99
- Antinous
- An Ode To Antares
- All Thats Not Love
- After An Epigram Of Clement Marot
- A Message To America
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.