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:
- Epitaph On An Army of Mercenaries by A. E. Housman
- The Fountain by Sara Teasdale
- Владимир Степанов – Следом за летом осень
- Pan to Artemis poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Khabaram raseed imshab poem – Amir Khusro poems | Poems and Poetry
- A Roxbury Garden poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Moon is a Painter by Vachel Lindsay
- Robert Burns: On A Noisy Polemic:
- For a’ that and a’ that by Robert Burns
- THE ROAD OF ANGEL poem – kapardeli eftichia poems | Poems and Poetry
- The Douglas Tragedy poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Colors And Sounds
- Иннокентий Анненский – Из окна
- Константин Бальмонт – Четыре источника
- Heccar and Gaira by Thomas Chatterton
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
- Phantasm
- Long I waited in vain
- was_then.html
- phantasm.html
- long_i_waited_in_vain.html
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- Us Two by AA Milne
- twinkletoes.html
- The Morning Walk
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- Teddy Bear
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- Missing
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
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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.