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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Служака
- Plague Of Dead Sharks
- Федор Сологуб – Когда я в бурном море плавал
- Robert Burns: Lines Written In Friars’-Carse Hermitage:
- Николай Карамзин – Меланхолия
- Land, Ho! by Thomas Edward Brown
- Robert Burns: Forlorn, My Love, No Comfort Near:
- The Other Two by Sylvia Plath
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- Senec. Traged. Ex Thyeste Chor.2 poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Алексей Жемчужников – Верста на старой дороге
- Владимир Маяковский – Точеные слоны
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Бахчисарай
- Goblin Revel by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Candle Indoors poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
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.