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:
- A Saturday Sunrise by Philo Ikonya
- Владимир Маяковский – Голодные! Пан Украину грабит… (РОСТА №106)
- Harry Ploughman poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Lines from Endymion poem – John Keats poems
- Traveling Through The Dark by William Stafford
- Омар Хайям – Если ты не впадаешь в молитвенный раж
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- On the Idle Hill of Summer by A. E. Housman
- Wind on the Hill by A. A. Milne
- The Devon Maid: Stanzas Sent In A Letter To B. R. Haydon poem – John Keats poems
- Gliding Over All. by Walt Whitman
- Валерий Брюсов – Эту ночь я дышал тишиной
- Song—Behold the Hour, the Boat, arrive by Robert Burns
- Ольга Берггольц – Новогодний тост
- Владимир Маяковский – Не вразброд, не случайно (Главполитпросвет)
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 Leaders Of The Crowd by William Butler Yeats
- The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner by William Butler Yeats
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats
- The Lady’s Third Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Lady’s Second Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Lady’s First Song by William Butler Yeats
- The Indian Upon God by William Butler Yeats
- The Indian To His Love by William Butler Yeats
- The Hour Before Dawn by William Butler Yeats
- To A Child Dancing In The Wind by William Butler Yeats
- Three Songs To The One Burden by William Butler Yeats
- These Are The Clouds by William Butler Yeats
- The Withering Of The Boughs by William Butler Yeats
- The Wheel by William Butler Yeats
- The Wanderings of Oisin: Book II by William Butler Yeats
- The Wanderings of Oisin: Book I by William Butler Yeats
- The Travail Of Passion by William Butler Yeats
- The Three Monuments by William Butler Yeats
- The Three Beggars by William Butler Yeats
- The Statues by William Butler Yeats
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.