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:
- Heccar and Gaira by Thomas Chatterton
- In Memoriam 131: O Living Will That Shalt Endure poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- meeting.html
- Степан Щипачев – У моря
- kaleidoscopic whorled wide web. by matthew scott harris
- Вера Звягинцева – Моя любовь к Армении похожа
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold by William Shakespeare
- Aerialist by Sylvia Plath
- Missile – A Tanka Poem
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Ad Magistrum Ludi by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Paradise Regained: The Second Book poem – John Milton poems
- I Stood Tip-Toe Upon A Little Hill poem – John Keats poems
- Ольга Берггольц – На Ивана-пьющего
- Владимир Маяковский – Что может быть старей кустарей?.. (РОСТА №573)
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.