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:
- As I Ponder’d in Silence. by Walt Whitman
- Владимир Вологдин – Не играйте, мальчики, в войну
- The islands of happiness
- Владимир Луговской – Ночной патруль
- Владимир Вишневский – Незаконная гордость
- The Fairies Break Their Dances by A. E. Housman
- Владимир Орлов – Дядя Миша на печи
- Владимир Высоцкий – Ох, где был я вчера
- Владимир Степанов – Воробей
- Translated from Geibel poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Федор Сологуб – Скупа Филис, но пыл мятежный
- Freedom poem – Aminu Ola Rasaq poems | Poems and Poetry
- When I Go Alone At Night by Rabindranath Tagore
- Виктор Гончаров – Дождь
- Savantism. by Walt Whitman
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.