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:
- Василий Лебедев-Кумач – Так говорил танкистам политрук
- Sunshine by Vin lan
- To Sr Henry Vane The Younger poem – John Milton poems
- If Old Men Fought by Mac McGovern
- Dusk In War Time by Sara Teasdale
- Sonnet. On The Sea poem – John Keats poems
- Алексей Толстой – Рука Алкида тяжела
- Новелла Матвеева – Художник, незнакомый с поощреньем
- Ольга Берггольц – Романс стойкого оловянного солдатика
- Two Quits And Drum And Elegy Drinkers
- Bellinglise
- Olney Hymn 61: The Narrow Way by William Cowper
- The Eagle poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Валерий Брюсов – К моей стране
- A Forgetful Number by Vasko Popa
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
- tears.html
- simple_heart.html
- silence.html
- she.html
- sealed_appropriate.html
- seal.html
- sea_salt_a_villanelle.html
- salamis_quot.html
- sacrifice_and_love.html
- poetry_and_politics.html
- plato.html
- paralipomemnon.html
- our_refuge.html
- one_sweet_white_light.html
- new_land.html
- motionless_body.html
- mother.html
- minimalism_and_the_elm_choka.html
- mark.html
- love_flower.html
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
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
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
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.