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:
- Robert Burns: The Braw Wooer:
- To The Rev. Mr. Newton, On His Return From Ramsgate by William Cowper
- To J. S. poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Sonnet 11
- On Shakespear poem – John Milton poems
- Robert Burns: Fickle Fortune: Fragment
- The Seven Sages by William Butler Yeats
- Нина Воронель – Бывает, что вещи меня ненавидят
- I have no complaint by Sappho
- Passage to India. by Walt Whitman
- Avec seulement du noir by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Behind a Wall poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Why England Is Conservative poem – Alfred Austin
- Яков Полонский – Поцелуй
- Огюст Барбье – Хвала Хафизу
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.