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:
- Sea Shell poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- the_world.html
- Milton (Alcaics) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Языков – Тригорское
- Sumter In Ruins by William Gilmore Simms
- Lune de Miel by T. S. Eliot
- Exposed On The Cliffs Of The Heart by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Sonnet 135: Whoever hath her wish, thou hast thy will by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Жемчужников – Весна
- The Voice of Woman by Shahida Latif
- Николай Карамзин – К самому себе
- Epistle II: To A Lady (Of the Characters of Women) poem – Alexander Pope
- Robert Burns: The Battle Of Sherramuir:
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Час обыкновенный
- Альфред Теннисон – Сёстры
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
- Vorticism Is A Choka In Its Modular Home
- Violets Beauty Passing
- Victor
- Untitled
- Traveling
- Tracks In The Private Country
- Thoughts Religious Content
- The World
- The Sacred Tree
- The Poet And Imagination
- The Holy Tree
- The Emigrant
- Tears
- Simple Heart
- Silence
- She
- Sealed Appropriate
- Seal
- Sea Salt A Villanelle
- Salamis Quot
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.