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:
- Омар Хайям – Мы больше в этот мир вовек не попадем
- Follower by Seamus Heaney
- Валерий Брюсов – Двадцать лет назад ты умерла
- Sonnet CXXV by William Shakespeare
- The Hedger by William Barnes
- Untitled V by Yunus Emre
- Владимир Степанов – Галочка-считалочка
- Вера Звягинцева – Качаешься в гробу стеклянном
- On A Mischievous Bull, Which The Owner Him Sold At The Author’s Instance by William Cowper
- Friday’s Child by W H Auden
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песенка о слухах
- To Mrs. Leonard on The Death of Her Husband by Phillis Wheatley
- Attente by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Как заработать на сочинении собственных стихов: варианты заработка денег стихотворениями – Poetry Monster
- Industrial Lace poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- Funeral Day Thoughts by Sudheesh Vs
- Flying Home by Sudeep Sen
- Do You Remember 1914 Grandad? by Steve Sant
- Crossroads by Suchi Gaur
- Closure by Suchi Gaur
- Borrowed Verses by Subhash Misra
- A Different September by Steve Sant
- Zen-moment by Sunil Sharma
- Young mother by Sunil Sharma
- Winter dusk at the railway halt by Sunil Sharma
- Valley-dawn by Sunil Sharma
- The workers by Sunil Sharma
- The light from an earthen lamp by Sunil Sharma
- The humble earthen lamp by Sunil Sharma
- The gypsy song by Sunil Sharma
- The Chant of the Indignant of the World by Sunil Sharma
- Surreal landscapes by Sunil Sharma
- To a son abroad by Sunil Sharma
- Relations by Sunil Sharma
- Pharaohs, Protests and Public by Sunil Sharma
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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.