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:
- English Poetry. David Herbert Lawrence. Whales Weep Not!. Дэвид Герберт Лоуренс.
- After Sunset by William Allingham
- Strange Fruit by Seamus Heaney
- Robert Burns: The Twa Herds; Or, The Holy Tulyie: An Unco Mournfu’ Tale
- Delicate Cluster. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: A Fiddler In The North:
- In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Михаил Лермонтов – Я видел тень блаженства
- Ольга Берггольц – Борису Корнилову
- Стефан Малларме – Дар поэмы
- Elegy on the Death of Robert Ruisseaux by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: Will Ye Go To The Indies, My Mary?:
- A Girl’s Garden by Robert Frost
- Юнна Мориц – Собственное небо
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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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.