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:
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- To All and Everything by Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Evenèn Light by William Barnes
- April Is The Saddest Month by William Carlos Williams
- The Cooling Tower poem – Amy Clampitt poems | Poems and Poetry
- Яков Полонский – Братья
- Владимир Маяковский – Даешь материальную базу
- Olney Hymn 60: Abuse Of The Gospel by William Cowper
- A River Flows Underground by Satish Verma
- Morning at the Window by T. S. Eliot
- Николай Языков – Родина
- Paradox by Willa Cather
- Владимир Маяковский – Забудем солдатчину!.. (РОСТА №425)
- Rising Early poem – Yang Wan-Li poems | Poetry Monster
- Ольга Берггольц – Так еще ни разу не забыла
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
- Chronicle
- Change
- Beauty
- Bathing River
- Bathing In The River
- Answer Copy Verses Sent Me Jersey
- Anacreontics The Swallow
- Anacreontics The Epicure
- Anacreontics Drinking
- An Answer To A Copy Of Verses Sent Me To Jersey
- Against Hope
- Against Fruition
- Summer Moon
- Stars
- Love Is Just Like The Rain
- Boy Running In The Rain
- Xai Kou From Book Seeds Of Faith
- Xai Kou1
- Xai Kou0
- Xai Kou
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.