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 – Дрова
- Владимир Маяковский – Размышления у парадного подъезда
- Валерий Брюсов – Е.Т. (Кто глаза ее оправил)
- Юлия Друнина – Жизнь моя не катилась
- Николай Глазков – Пятнадцать лет спустя
- Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling
- Омар Хайям – Мой друг, о завтрашнем заботиться не след
- A god in wrath by Stephen Crane
- I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Meditation on a Bone
- Robert Burns: To Daunton Me:
- Shattered Dreams. Broken Promises. by Russell James
- Those seven days by Vinaya Kumar Hanumanthappa
- Love’s Wisdom poem – Alfred Austin
- Lucid Dreams by Talha Jafri
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
- Playing With Big Numbers
- Percy Janes Boarding The Bus
- One Word
- Once She Dreamed
- O God
- Notebook Of A Return To The Native Land
- Night Words
- Negligence
- Mustard Flowers
- Meditation With Feet
- Love
- Little Talk
- Light The Festive Candles
- Levitation
- Labor Pains
- Labels
- Kalli
- Insect039s Nest
- In This Cul De Sac
- I See Chile In My Rearview Mirror
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.