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:
- Fickle Fortune: A Fragment by Robert Burns
- Ad Martialem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Nearly A Valediction by Marilyn Hacker
- I know you will remember ME by Neelam Sinha
- On the late Captain Grose’s Peregrinations by Robert Burns
- Юлий Даниэль – А в это время
- When Day Is Done by Rabindranath Tagore
- Вера Полозкова – И пока он вскакивает с кровати
- Life by Marvin Bell
- Омар Хайям – Из допущенных в рай и повергнутых в ад
- The Bull Of Bendylaw by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet 10 poem – John Milton poems
- Home Burial by Robert Frost
- Алишер Навои – Над головой моею осенних дней листопад
- Brockley Coomb by Samuel Coleridge
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.