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:
- The Coal Picker poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Юргис Балтрушайтис – Отторженность
- Fair Elanor by William Blake
- Untitled XII by Yunus Emre
- The Bell Buoy by Rudyard Kipling
- Adolescence by P. K. Page
- Владимир Маяковский – Ты знаешь это вот… (Главполитпросвет №267)
- Владимир Костров – Отшумели сады, отзвенела вода
- On The Eating Of Mice by Russell Edson
- Robert Burns: Clarinda, Mistress Of My Soul:
- Омар Хайям – О мудрец, если тот или этот дурак
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- Harrow-on-the-Hill poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- Warm are the Still and Lucky Miles by W H Auden
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
- Wind on the Hill by AA Milne
- us_two_by_a_a_milne.html
- twinkletoes.html
- the_morning_walk.html
- the_kings_breakfast.html
- the_dormouse_and_the_doctor.html
- the_christening.html
- rice_pudding.html
- politeness.html
- missing.html
- market_square.html
- lines_and_squares.html
- if_i_were_king.html
- hoppity.html
- happiness.html
- come_out_with_me.html
- buckingham_palace.html
- brownie.html
- at_the_zoo.html
- Water Strider by Aaron Baker
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.