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:
- The Further Bank by Rabindranath Tagore
- Огюст Барбье – Шекспир
- South Wind by Siegfried Sassoon
- Валерий Брюсов – Еврейским девушкам
- Sarah Cynthia Slyvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out by Shel Silverstein
- Autumn poem – Ysabelle Moriarty poems | Poetry Monster
- Changing Of The Seasons by Shel Silverstein
- Зинаида Александрова – Белочка
- Song—Auld Lang Syne by Robert Burns
- How Does Writing Improves Your Mental Health?
- Владимир Гиляровский – На Севере
- Obscurity, the Essay and Poems on Obscurity by Abraham Cowley
- I Chide Not At The Seasons poem – Alfred Austin
- Verses On A Young Lady (playing harpsichord, and singing) by Tobias Smollett
- Юрий Галансков – Утро
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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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.