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 Princess (prologue) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Wuthering Heights by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: On Glenriddell’s Fox Breaking His Chain: A Fragment
- Peace by William Butler Yeats
- My Picture-Gallery. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Не могу ни выпить, ни забыться
- Robert Burns: Burlesque Lament For The Absence Of William Creech, Publisher:
- The Princess: A Medley: Our Enemies have Fall’n poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Fire, Famine, And Slaughter : A War Eclogue by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Dusk In Autumn by Sara Teasdale
- In Honour Of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Омар Хайям – О горе, горе сердцу, где жгучей страсти нет
- A Smuggler’s Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Atlantis by W H Auden
- To A Girl In A Garden by Sappho
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
- Golden Eyes
- From Behind The Lattice
- Feroza
- Feroke
- Fate Knows No Tears
- Farewell
- Fancy
- Famine Song
- Early Love
- Disappointment
- Deserted Gipsys Song Hillside Camp
- Dedication
- Dedication To Malcolm Nicolson
- Camp Followers Song Gomal River
- Back To The Border
- Au Salon
- Atavism
- Ashore
- Among The Sandhills
- Among The Rice Fields
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.