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:
- Altar amid the sea by Vinko Kalinic
- I Won, You Lost by Philip Levine
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man poem – A. E. Housman
- Sleep of the Body the Soul’s Awakening by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Аля Кудряшева – Замылим, потом замолим
- Epistle to James Smith by Robert Burns
- Михаил Кузмин – Вот после ржавых львов и рева
- A Dream by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 104: To me, fair friend, you never can be old by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Высоцкий – Живёт на свете человек
- Ольга Берггольц – Огонь, и воду, и медные трубы
- She got her wings by Mahak Raithatha S
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- September 1815 by William Wordsworth
- American Feuillage. by Walt Whitman
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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.