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:
- You Will Forget! by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Memory Of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh
- In The Depths Of Solitude by Tupac Shakur
- A Slumber did my Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
- Rendezvous
- A Tale of Christmas Eve by William Topaz McGonagall
- Red Slippers poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Лермонтов – Воля
- Blank Joy by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnet To Byron poem – John Keats poems
- A Song In Storm by Rudyard Kipling
- The Silent Lover ii by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Владимир Британишский – Мне скучно
- Владимир Высоцкий – Неужто здесь сошёлся клином свет
- Astrophel and Stella: XCII by Sir Philip Sidney
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
- Gravity Suspended
- From Death
- Forfeiture
- For My Mother
- Fly Fly Butterfly
- Even The Rain
- Destiny Far Away
- Conversation
- Calling All Angels
- At The Locks Of The Void
- Anthem
- All In A Word
- A Teenage Pregnancy
- A Painting Morning
- A Child Of War
- Your Dream
- Ars Poetica
- The Vision Of Cassandra
- The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia
- The Lament Of The Old Nurse
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.