A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Pallas grew vapourish once, and odd,
She would not do the least right thing,
Either for goddess, or for god,
Nor work, nor play, nor paint, nor sing.
Jove frown’d, and, “Use,” he cried, “those eyes
So skilful, and those hands so taper;
Do something exquisite and wise -“
She bow’d, obey’d him, – and cut paper.
This vexing him who gave her birth,
Thought by all heaven a burning shame;
What does she next, but bids, on earth,
Her Burlington do just the same.
Pallas, you give yourself strange airs;
But sure you’ll find it hard to spoil
The sense and taste of one that bears
The name of Saville and of Boyle.
Alas! one bad example shown;
How quickly all the sex pursue!
See, madam, see the arts o’erthrown,
Between John Overton and you!
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- The Identification by Roger McGough
- Mad As The Mist And Snow by William Butler Yeats
- Владимир Корнилов – Дом
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- Take My Hands
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- Нина Воронель – Суета
- Asparagus – A Tanka Poem
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- Behold the hour by Robert Burns
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- La Nuit Blanche by Rudyard Kipling
- To Be Blind
External links
Bat’s Poetry Page – more poetry by Fledermaus
Talking Writing Monster’s Page –
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Poems in English
- An Afternoon by Raymond Carver
- Watching the Bird Watcher by Richard Schiffman
- Virtual Impressions by Renu Ayyar
- Two Wings by Ricardo Sternberg
- They won’t Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- The Laws of God, The Laws of Man by A. E. Housman
- The Invention of Honey by Ricardo Sternberg
- Swallows by Richard Schiffman
- Supply=Demand by Ricardo Sternberg
- Skyscrapers by Rifat Ilgaz
- Silence by Riju Dave
- Rainbow by Ria De Torres
- Only If I Know by Rifat Ilgaz
- My Search by Renu Ayyar
- My Partner in Crime by Rennu Ayyar
- My Last Poem by Rifat Ilgaz
- Man Versus Satan by Shahida Latif
- Lovers in Cafe by Aiyah De Torres
- LET Go.. by Renu Ayyar
- In Poetry by Rifat Ilgaz
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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.