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:
- Олег Бундур – Я сильнее
- Ольга Берггольц – Огонь, и воду, и медные трубы
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. by Walt Whitman
- Song—Blythe hae I been on yon hill by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: A Lass Wi’ A Tocher:
- Константин Бальмонт – Эльзи
- Dreamtime by Olivia Lewis
- Николай Языков – Д. Н. Свербееву (Во имя Руси, милый брат)
- The Dunciad: Book II. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Song Of The Colours By Taj Mahomed
- Epitaph by Samuel Coleridge
- Hysteria by T. S. Eliot
- The Resting Place
- Олег Бундур – Папа пристал
- A Question Answered poem – Alfred Austin
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
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- Valhalla
- The Masks of Love
- The Bull Moose
- The Window
- So Small, So Vital
- If Only
- haiku
- A Mysterious Naked Man
- A Certain Kind of Holy Men
- A Life Story
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Two Quits And A Drum And Elegy For Drinkers
- To Sayf Al Dawla
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.