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:
- Ad Martialem by Robert Louis Stevenson
- God Cut the Cord by Raj Napal
- My Eyes in the Time of Apparition by Rachel McKibbens
- Sonnet 75: So are you to my thoughts as food to life by William Shakespeare
- A Poet’s Welcome to his Love-Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns
- Ольга Берггольц – Нам от тебя теперь не оторваться
- The Silver Moon by Sappho
- Ode Composed On A May Morning by William Wordsworth
- Валерий Брюсов – И. Туманьяну надпись на книге (Да будет праведно возмездие)
- Someone left a pen… poem – Yuyutsu Sharma poems | Poetry Monster
- O Little Root of a Dream by Paul Celan
- intertwined by rachel wright
- Doomes-Day: The Tenth Houre by William Alexander
- Crazy Insane by Stephen Sweitzer
- “Célibataire” by Sylvia Plath
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
- On Going Unnoticed by Robert Frost
- On a Tree Fallen Across the Road by Robert Frost
- October by Robert Frost
- Now Close the Windows by Robert Frost
- Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost
- Not To Keep by Robert Frost
- New Hampshire by Robert Frost
- Never Again Would Bird’s Song Be The Same by Robert Frost
- Neither Out Far Nor In Deep by Robert Frost
- My November Guest by Robert Frost
- My Butterfly by Robert Frost
- Mowing by Robert Frost
- Misgiving by Robert Frost
- Meeting and Passing by Robert Frost
- Maple by Robert Frost
- Looking For a Sunset Bird in Winter by Robert Frost
- Lodged by Robert Frost
- Locked Out by Robert Frost
- Leaves Compared With Flowers by Robert Frost
- Into My Own by Robert Frost
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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.