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:
- New York’s Last Gleanings by Matthew Abuelo
- Work and Play by Ted Hughes
- Robert Burns: Hey, The Dusty Miller:
- Омар Хайям – Неправ, кто думает, что бог неумолим
- Валерий Брюсов – In hас lackimarum valle (в этой долине слез )
- Николай Глазков – Подражание
- Alba poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Fragmentary Blue by Robert Frost
- Sacrifice And Love
- Robert Burns: Stay My Charmer:
- The Mouse by Mac McGovern
- Spirituality of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Gerard Manley Hopkins: a shepherd poet
- Ольга Седакова – Ангел Реймса
- Василий Жуковский – Могущество, слава и благоденствие России
- Владимир Костров – Романс
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
- Hope And Riders
- Do I
- Communal War
- Blank Dreams
- Before
- Again
- A Voice
- A Toast To Nations
- What Of The Night
- Vows
- To Morrow
- The Winged Mariners
- The Watchman
- The Virgin Martyr
- The Vain Question
- The Soldiers Grave
- The Silence In The Church
- The Season
- The Resting Place
- The Old Manor House
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.