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:
- Depths
- Crazy Jane On The Day Of Judgment by William Butler Yeats
- Reviving My Feminity poem – Amy Cavanaugh poems | Poems and Poetry
- My teacher wasn’t half as nice as yours seems to be by Roald Dahl
- Screens (In a Hospital) by Winifred Mary Letts
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by Robert Herrick
- Вера Павлова – Время уступать место
- Heel & Toe To The End by William Carlos Williams
- Ribbons & Pearls by Timothy Cole
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Элегия (Мысль в разлуке с вещим сном)
- Gwain To Feäir by William Barnes
- Михаил Кузмин – Туманный день пройдет уныло
- Олег Бундур – Про чемпионов
- Михаил Ломоносов – Чем ты дале прочь отходишь
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
- Unlyric Love Song
- Tube Station
- To Be Blind
- The Man In The Bowler Hat
- the_children_look_at_the_parents.html
- The British
- symphony_in_red.html
- seaport.html
- sea.html
- quickstep.html
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- not_love_perhaps.html
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.