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:
- Robert Burns: The Calf: To the Rev. James Steven, on his text, Malachi, ch. iv. vers. 2. “And ye shall go forth, and grow up, as Calves of the stall.”
- Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid’s Metamorphosis poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Юлия Друнина – Я курила недолго, давно, на войне
- On Moonlit Heath and Lonesome Bank poem – A. E. Housman
- A Girl by Ezra Pound
- The Commination
- Where Are You?
- Say, Lad, Have You Things to Do? poem – A. E. Housman
- The blanket is same always by Neelam Sinha
- Огюст Барбье – Шекспир
- Федор Сологуб – Во мне мечты мои цветут
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос города (Ру-ру, ру-ру, трах, рк-ру-ру)
- I Heard You, Solemn-sweet Pipes of the Organ. by Walt Whitman
- Pensive and Faltering. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
External links
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Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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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
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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.