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:
- Holy Communion
- Виктор Гончаров – Скоро, скоро я домой поеду
- A Night In June poem – Alfred Austin
- IX: Some Verses: This Day Design’d To Spoil The World of Peace by William Alexander
- A Lover’s Complaint by William Shakespeare
- Apprehensions by Sylvia Plath
- Eclogue:–Come And Zee Us In The Zummer by William Barnes
- Юлия Друнина – Царевна
- Ballade Of Midsummer Days And Nights by William Ernest Henley
- The Tears of Scotland by Tobias Smollett
- Sonnet LXIV by William Shakespeare
- Instead of farewell by Vinko Kalinić
- The Cloak, The Boat And The Shoes by William Butler Yeats
- A Vision by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 118: Like as to make our appetite more keen by William Shakespeare
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.