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:
- Wednesday by Marvin Bell
- Иннокентий Анненский – Из окна
- Lips and Eyes. by Thomas Carew
- An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatic Poet W. Shakespeare poem – John Milton poems
- Владимир Маяковский – России
- Николай Языков – Две картины
- Breadfruit by Philip Larkin
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- Smoke by Théophile Gautier
- Stravinsky’s Three Pieces poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Epitaph for William Nicol, High School, Edinburgh by Robert Burns
- The Call To Arms In Our Street by Winifred Mary Letts
- He Thinks Of Those Who Have Spoken Evil Of His Beloved by William Butler Yeats
- E.A. Nov. 6, 1900 by John Oxenham
- November 1813 by William Wordsworth
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
- The Tree Of Knowledge
- The Thraldom
- The Thief
- The Spring
- The Request
- The Praise Of Pindar In Imitation Of Horace His Second Ode Book 4
- The Parting
- The Motto
- The Innocent Ill
- The Heart Breaking
- The Grasshopper
- The Given Love
- The Given Heart
- The Epicure
- The Despair
- The Chronicle
- The Change
- Sport
- Resolved To Be Loved
- Resolved Be Loved
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.