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:
- Новелла Матвеева – Я, говорит, не воин
- Robert Burns: I do Confess Thou Art Sae Fair: Alteration of an Old Poem.
- Яков Полонский – Блажен озлобленный поэт
- Алексей Жемчужников – Зимнее чувство
- Алексей Жемчужников – Причина разногласия
- Robert Burns: Caledonia -A Ballad :
- Владимир Британишский – О, растенья-пустынники дюнных песков
- Loving In Truth, And Fain In Verse My Love To Show by Sir Philip Sidney
- At The Gate Of The Convent poem – Alfred Austin
- Planet Earth by P. K. Page
- Федор Сологуб – Ариадна
- Владимир Высоцкий – Переворот в мозгах из края в край
- Illusions by Mark R Slaughter
- The Woods At Night by May Swenson
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Из стихотворения «Призраки»
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
- The Defiance Of Eteocles
- The Decree Of Athena
- The Complaint Of Prometheus
- The Beacon Fires
- The Battle Of Salamis
- Song Of The Furies
- Prometheus Amid Hurricane And Earthquake
- Prayer Artemis
- Lament Two Brothers Slain Each Other039s Hand
- Lament For The Two Brothers Slain By Each Others Hand
- Fragment From Aeschylus
- Complaint Prometheus
- Battle Salamis
- A Prayer For Artemis
- On Twitter
- Victory
- Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- Two Songs
- Stepping Backward
- Snapshots Of A Daughter In Law By Adrienne Rich
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.