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:
- Владимир Британишский – Феодосия, Керчь, Таганрог
- The Dree Woaks by William Barnes
- Sonnet 42: That thou hast her, it is not all my grief by William Shakespeare
- A Winter Twilight poem – Angelina Weld Grimke poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Lost Friend, I Never Had by Renu Ayyar
- On the Road to Nowhere by Vachel Lindsay
- Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman by William Wordsworth
- Lover’s Gifts XL: A Message Came by Rabindranath Tagore
- Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
- Resurgam
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – На берегу
- The New Church Organ by Will McKendree Carleton
- Fabrication Of Ancestors
- No Labor-Saving Machine. by Walt Whitman
- A Lover To His Mistress by William Strode
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
- A Sigh In The Night
- A Sermon
- A Prayer
- A Dream Of Venice
- A Supplication
- Written Juice Lemon
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Wit
- Welcome
- Vote Excerpt
- Usurpation
- Tree Knowledge
- To The Royal Society
- To The Lord Falkland
- To Sir William Davenant
- Thisbes Song
- The Wish
- The Welcome
- The Vote Excerpt
- The Usurpation
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.