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:
- The Soldier poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Internal Migration On Being On Tour
- Less Than The Cloud To The Wind by Sara Teasdale
- Николай Заболоцкий – Я трогал листы эвкалипта
- Владимир Британишский – А Новый год мы встретили в лесу
- Ah, Are You Digging On My Grave? by Thomas Hardy
- Damned by Tanisha Avarsekar
- To His Watch poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- On; On; Poet poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Так говорил танкистам политрук
- Robert Burns: On A Suicide:
- Stray Pleasures by William Wordsworth
- How I saved Planet Earth by Raj Arumugam
- Николай Карамзин – Странные люди
- Федор Сологуб – Я люблю мою темную землю
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.