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:
- As Kingfishers Catch Fire poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Epitaph for Gavin Hamilton, Esq. by Robert Burns
- The Bell From Europe by Weldon Kees
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Одно из двух
- Ок Мельникова – Гасите звёзды
- April Aubade by Sylvia Plath
- Robert Burns: Epistle To James Tennant Of Glenconner:
- The Stage Coach by William Barnes
- Алексей Ржевский – Рок все теперь свершил, надежды больше нет
- Владимир Корнилов – Платформа 126-го км
- Broceliande
- Song—O can ye Labour Lea? by Robert Burns
- Sonnet 98: From you have I been absent in the spring by William Shakespeare
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Приворот
- Ольга Берггольц – Ты в пустыню меня послала
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.