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:
- Владимир Маяковский – Товарищи, близятся ужасы зимы… (РОСТА №270)
- Nobody Told Me Of These Nights (A Poem For Melanie) by Stevens Cadet
- Валерий Брюсов – Голос иных миров
- Василий Казин – Письмо
- Moonrise by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Маяковский – Вам нравится есть?.. (РОСТА №528)
- Lyric written in 1830 poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Yonder pomp of costly fashion (Song) by Robert Burns
- A Nativity by Rudyard Kipling
- A little ink more or less! by Stephen Crane
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Плач
- Николай Карамзин – Эпитафия Джону Гею
- One Sweeps By. by Walt Whitman
- Before They Were Mothers by Sappho
- Robert Burns: Poem On Sensibility:
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:
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.