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:
- Яков Полонский – После праздника
- Константин Бальмонт – На вершине
- Rhyme by the Bog by Robby Charters
- Юнна Мориц – Побег
- Стефан Малларме – Звенящий зимний день
- Жан де Лафонтен – Эзопово объяснение одного завещания
- Not Fear by Rafael Guillen
- Robert Burns: Lines Written Under The Picture Of The Celebrated Miss Burns:
- Morning Poem #1 by Wanda Phipps
- The Gardener XIX: You Walked by Rabindranath Tagore
- Joe Biden, a Ghazal
- Владимир Маяковский – Россия – страна земледельческая… (РОСТА №874)
- To A Soldier In Hospital by Winifred Mary Letts
- Proactive Responses to Recession – 7 Creative Ways to Make Extra Money With Real Estate
- The Uses of the Eye by Paul Blackburn
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.