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:
- Олег Бундур – В зоологическом музее
- A Dream (English Translation) by Rabindranath Tagore
- Out of the Rolling Ocean, the Crowd. by Walt Whitman
- Олег Григорьев – Угро
- Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Ezra on the Strike poem – Ezra Pound poems
- eclipse_of_love.html
- Николай Глазков – Рассчитывая на успех
- Ок Мельникова – Let it be
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Вьющееся растение
- Гавриил Державин – Послание Мурзы Багрима к царевне Доброславе
- Underneath an Abject Willow by W H Auden
- On An Arctic Winter by Nithin Purple
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Монастыркам
- Haiku: The Bluebird and the Sky by Monty Gilmer
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-infernal-regions.html
- honeycomb.html
- Dark Matter by Aaron Baker
- polyphony_in_a_cathedral.html
- one_almost_might.html
- nursery_rhyme_for_a_twenty_first_birthday.html
- Not Love Perhaps
- night_piece.html
- never.html
- music.html
- meeting.html
- last_word_to_childhood.html
- june_sick_room.html
- houses.html
- flight_of_stairs.html
- epitaph_on_a_disturber_of_his_times.html
- Epitaph for Our Children
- empty_room.html
- earthfast.html
- don_juan.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.