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:
- Иннокентий Анненский – Леконт де Лиль. Над синим мраком ночи длинной
- Mungojerrie And Rumpelteazer by T. S. Eliot
- The Brook That Ran By Gramfer’s by William Barnes
- “`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law” poem – Alfred Austin
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Лермонтов – Ах! Ныне я не тот совсем
- Аля Кудряшева – И кстати, еще бывает уездный гор
- Song—Beware o’ Bonie Ann by Robert Burns
- Who’s Who by W H Auden
- Джон Мильтон – Написано в дни, когда ожидался штурм Лондона
- The Child and the Mariner by William Henry Davies
- The Sound Of Your Breathing by Mac McGovern
- Ярослав Смеляков – Здравствуй, Пушкин
- Attack On The Ad-Man
- Яков Полонский – Неотвязная
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
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.