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:
- Crepuscule du Matin poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Child by Sylvia Plath
- Ballade Of The Dream poem – Andrew Lang poems
- The Bagpipe Who Didn’t Say No by Shel Silverstein
- O, Were I Loved As I Desire To Be! poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Splenda by Rob Leatherman Sr.
- Venus, on a fur by Witty Fay
- Sin poem – Yao Ying poems | Poetry Monster
- Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise by William Wordsworth
- Владимир Высоцкий – Вы в огне да и в море вовеки не сыщете брода
- Robert Burns: Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge:
- Summer – The Second Pastoral; or Alexis poem – Alexander Pope
- Шекспир – Весну не перельешь в хрусталь – Сонет 6
- Mediums. by Walt Whitman
- Нина Пикулева – Яна-Несмеяна
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
- Sunflowers by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Morning by Mark R Slaughter
- Speaking the Language of Deer by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Mending Socks by Martin Willitts Jr.
- Some Say by Mark Miller
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Manure by Mark R Slaughter
- Slag by Mark Base
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- She and Drugs by Mark R Slaughter
- Sculpture of Debris on the Waterfront by Martina Reisz Newberry
- Lines For Winter by Mark Strand
- Life, wait for me by Martin Zakovski
- Question mark remarks by Mark Miller
- Life by Marvin Bell
- Postures by Martina Reisz Newberry
- My Father’s Hats by Mark Irwin
- Let Him Free by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Keeping Things Whole by Mark Strand
- Please Don’t Judas Me by Mark Miller
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
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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.