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:
- Robert Burns: I Reign In Jeanie’s Bosom:
- Владимир Маяковский – Не пей сырой воды! (Главполитпросвет №230)
- Аля Кудряшева – Мне снился
- Sonnet 86: Was it the proud full sail of his great verse by William Shakespeare
- Excerpt – “Goldilocks and the Three Bears” by Roald Dahl
- Василий Курочкин – Юмористическим чутьем
- Юрий Коринец – Март
- John Milton – John Milton Poems
- Lines Written As A School Exercise At Hawkshead, Anno Aetatis 14 by William Wordsworth
- Sonnet to the Nightingale poem – John Milton poems
- In The Early Pearly Morning
- As the Bell Clinks by Rudyard Kipling
- I Once Knew A Woman by Shel Silverstein
- Song—She’s Fair and Fause by Robert Burns
- Gloucester Moods by William Vaughn Moody
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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.