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:
- Наум Коржавин – Он собирался многое свершить
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня Вани перед студентами
- A Hairline Fracture poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- His Holiness the Abbot by Yosa Buson
- My Butterfly by Robert Frost
- Шекспир – У сердца с глазом тайный договор – Сонет 47
- Robert Burns: The Banks O’ Doon: Second Version
- Омар Хайям – Не зли других и сам не злись
- Dawlish Fair poem – John Keats poems
- Зинаида Александрова – Котята
- Attitude: Don Juan in the Shopping Mall by S. K. Kelen
- Robert Burns: The Poet’s Progress : A Poem In Embryo
- Oh Who Is That Young Sinner poem – A. E. Housman
- Sonnet. The Human Seasons poem – John Keats poems
- On The Death Of Rev. Mr. George Whitefield by Phillis Wheatley
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
- Swing Shift Blues
- Remembering An Account Executive
- Prison Song
- Portrait From The Infantry
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- On Looking For Models
- On The Civil War On The East Coast Of The United States Of North America 1860 64
- On Hurricane Jackson
- On Being A Householder
- On A Seven Day Diary
- Nomenclature
- Monologue Of A Commercial Fisherman
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Internal Migration Being Tour
- How We Heard The Name
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- Elegy
- Drunken Memories Of Anne Sexton
- Civil War East Coast United States North America 1860 64
- Against A Sickness To The Female Double Principle God
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.