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:
- Иосиф Бродский – Буров тракторист
- Here I would have loved you by Luz del Alba Nicola
- Юнна Мориц – Это да, это нет
- The Temple Dancing Girl
- Владимир Маяковский – Только организация урожай умножит… (Главполитпросвет №33)
- Eve by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Михаил Ломоносов – Надпись 3 к статуе Петра Великого
- Шекспир – Любовь к себе моим владеет взором – Сонет 62
- Sonnet 137: Thou blind fool, Love, what dost thou to mine eyes by William Shakespeare
- About The Nightingale by Samuel Coleridge
- On Scaring some Water-Fowl in Lock Turit by Robert Burns
- The Gardener X: Let Your Work Be, Bride by Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Burns: Tarbolton Lasses, The:
- Николай Некрасов – Не рыдай так безумно над ним
- A Historical Breakfast by Russell Edson
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
- Hope by Walter William Safar
- Freedom by Walter William Safar
- Forest by Walter William Safar
- Cry of the Betrayed Earth by Walter William Safar
- Christmas Star by Walter William Safar
- Beloved Ireland by Walter William Safar
- American Soil by Walter William Safar
- America by Walter William Safar
- Against All Streams by Walter William Safar
- A window into the world by Walter William Safar
- A Poem to my Beloved by Walter William Safar
- Bound Home to Mount Song by Wang Wei
- Answering Vice-Prefect Zhang by Wang Wei
- At the Lake Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Duckweed Pond by Wang Wei
- Bamboo Adobe by Wang Wei
- Deer Enclosure by Wang Wei
- Farewell to Hsin Chien at Hibiscus Pavilion by Wang Wei
- Farewell by Wang Wei
- For P’ei Ti by Wang Wei
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.