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 Бенедиктов – Роза и дева
- Io v’amo sol perche (I Love You Simply Because) by Torquato Tasso
- The Little Big Man by Rabindranath Tagore
- It’s No Use Raising A Shout by W H Auden
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- A Slumber did my Spirit Seal by William Wordsworth
- The Unfortunate Lover poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- Eclogue:–Come And Zee Us In The Zummer by William Barnes
- ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE by Robert Herrick
- The Brigs of Ayr by Robert Burns
- The Phases Of The Moon by William Butler Yeats
- Yin and Yang by Muralidharan Mudaliar
- Ephemera by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Вишневский – На исходе двадцатого века
- An Army Corps on the March. by Walt Whitman
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.