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:
- Ок Мельникова – От киева до сантьяго
- To The King’s Most Excellent Majesty by Phillis Wheatley
- I was born with a cry by Nur Al-Alam
- Ballade Of Youth And Age by William Ernest Henley
- Ode for General Washington’s Birthday by Robert Burns
- Before The World Was Made by William Butler Yeats
- The Gardener LI: Then Finish the Last Song by Rabindranath Tagore
- Николай Языков – Песня (Налей и мне, товарищ мой)
- Mad Day In March by Philip Levine
- Whiteness I Remember by Sylvia Plath
- Olney Hymn 30: The Light And Glory Of The Word by William Cowper
- An Indian Love Song by Sarojini Naidu
- Teddy Bear
- Last Words by Philip Levine
- Василий Тредиаковский – Описание грозы, бывшей в Гааге
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.