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:
- Free Poetry Competitions – Prepare to Win The Next Poetry Competition That You Enter!
- Иван Бунин – Богиня
- Where’s the Poet? poem – John Keats poems
- Алексей Плещеев – Песня
- Федор Сологуб – Плачет безутешная вдова
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Я знаю, люблю я бесплодно
- Happiness by Stevie Smith
- Олег Бундур – Вид с задней парты
- Омар Хайям – Друг, два понятия должен бы ты затвердить
- I closed my eyes to creation by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- That Light by Paul Hostovsky
- The Circus Animals’ Desertion by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Маяковский – Слово “Товарищ” говоришь ты?! (РОСТА №449)
- A Memory by Rupert Brooke
- Tu Fu – Tu Fu
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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.