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:
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Анатолий Жигулин – Горят сырые листья
- Алексей Толстой – Ты почто, злая кручинушка
- Алексей Толстой – Слова для мазурки
- Siege Of Vienna Raised By Jihn Sobieski by William Wordsworth
- Shancoduff by Patrick Kavanagh
- LIGHT ECHOES by Sonya Ki Tomlinson
- To Death poem – Amy Levy poems | Poems and Poetry
- Омар Хайям – Кто битым жизнью был, тот большего добьется
- Sonnet 120: That you were once unkind befriends me now by William Shakespeare
- The Paint-Kings by Washington Allston
- Владимир Британишский – Молодой Толстой
- Last News About The Little Box by Vasko Popa
- Stubborn by Roland Flint
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
- Woken Up By Beautiful Dreams
- The Poet Angels Who Came To Dinner
- The Nomad039s Vision Ode To A Skylark Dressed In Black
- The Man That Poetry Made
- Power Of Thought
- Once Was A Singer For God Remembering Nekia
- My Aroma
- Lost Love Is Never Lost
- Holiday Letter For A Poet Gone To War
- Gratitudes Of A Dozen Roses
- Every Hour Henceforth
- Cell Mate
- Calling The Spirits
- Angel Of Christmas Love Shining Bright
- Angel Of Better Days To Come
- All Night In Savannah The Wind Wrote Poetry
- The Solitary Oak On Mount Kremlin Bicetre
- The Prison Of The Past
- The Dead Woman
- Pathos Is The Skyward Tanka
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.