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:
- Out over the Forth (Song) by Robert Burns
- SOMALIA CALLING by Satish Verma
- Hymn Light
- Владимир Маяковский – Давайте и получите (РОСТА №495)
- Robert Burns: Epitaph For William Nicol, Of The High School, Edinburgh:
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня парня у обелиска космонавтам
- The Perch by Seamus Heaney
- Colophon poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Владимир Маяковский – Первый вывоз
- Tom The Lunatic by William Butler Yeats
- “If I Must Go” by Sara Teasdale
- From One Who Stays poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- In The Evening
- Buddha at Kamakura by Rudyard Kipling
- The Winter’s Willow by William Barnes
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
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.