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:
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос мертвого
- Colors Passing Through Us by Marge Piercy
- Counter-Attack by Siegfried Sassoon
- “Veruca Salt…” by Roald Dahl
- Don’t Disappear by Roberto Cocina
- Trial by Ruth Padel
- The Sitter by Shel Silverstein
- Виктор Шамонин-Версенев – Дед-разиня, хитрая лиса и глупый волк
- Олег Сердобольский – Стой, кто идет
- E.P. Ode Pour L’election De Son Sepulchre poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Sir Hugh; Or The Jew’s Daughter poem – Andrew Lang poems
- Ode to Duty by William Wordsworth
- On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto. poem – Alexander Pope poems | Poetry Monster
- Whispering In Wattle Boughs
- Life-companion by Shailendra Chauhan
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
- The Sun Was Slumbering in the West by Thomas Hood
- The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
- The Haunted House by Thomas Hood
- The Dream of Eugene Aram by Thomas Hood
- The Death Bed by Thomas Hood
- The Bridge of Sighs by Thomas Hood
- Silence by Thomas Hood
- Ruth by Thomas Hood
- Past and Present by Thomas Hood
- On Mistress Nicely, a Pattern for Housekeepers by Thomas Hood
- November by Thomas Hood
- No! by Thomas Hood
- I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
- Gold! by Thomas Hood
- Flowers by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Sally Brown by Thomas Hood
- Faithless Nelly Gray by Thomas Hood
- Death by Thomas Hood
- Christmas Holidays by Thomas Hood
- Autumn by Thomas Hood
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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.