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:
- Михаил Кузмин – Увы, любви своей не скрою
- On a certain Lady at Court poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Not my poem
- So Long. by Walt Whitman
- The Death of Grandfather poem – Aleksandr Blok poems | Poetry Monster
- Against All Streams by Walter William Safar
- Федор Тютчев – К портрету государственного канцлера, князя А.М. Горчакова
- A Fixed Idea poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Gardener XIV: I Was Walking by the Road by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Сологуб – Зачем, скажи
- This Compost. by Walt Whitman
- Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову
- Владимир Вишневский – Пассажирский поезд
- Василий Жуковский – На смерть Андрея Тургенева
- Alchemy 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
- Transient
- To The Serpent
- To The Nameless Soldier
- The Woman And The Flame
- The Wolf039s Postcript To 039little Red Riding Hood039
- The Riddle
- The Queen
- The Poisoned Present
- The Markets Are Down 2 Amp A Quarter
- The Maharishi And The Baby
- The Immigrant
- The Fallen House
- The Poetry That Is Life
- Take My Hands
- Tablet
- Stroll In A Particle
- Stones
- Spanish Banks
- Somber Song
- Poem65
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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.