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:
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- A Poet! He Hath Put His Heart To School by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Разлука
- Lyric written in 1830 poem – Alexander Pushkin
- The Great War by Vernon Scannell
- Robert Burns: Saw Ye My Dear, My Philly:
- Storm poem – André Rostant poems
- Morning Poem #59 by Wanda Phipps
- Геннадий Айги – ДЕВОЧКА В ДЕТСТВЕ
- Вера Павлова – Вергилий в предсмертном бреду
- Don’t Hang Up The Phone by Miraj Patel
- English Poetry. Philip James Bailey. Festus – 34. Филип Джеймс Бэйли.
- I Loved
- To The Honble Commodore Hood on His Pardoning a Deserter by Phillis Wheatley
- Rainbow by Ria De Torres
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
- Afridi Love
- Adoration
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Thoras Song Ashtaroth
- The Swimmer
- The Sick Stockrider
- The Last Leap
- Gone
- An Exiles Farewell
- A Song Of Autumn
- A Dedication
- Medical Ethics
- Vain
- Myself
- My Heritage
- Miserimus
- Memory
- Karazah Karl
- Judith
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.