A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
I know the thing that’s most uncommon;
(Envy be silent and attend!)
I know a Reasonable Woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a Friend.
Not warp’d by Passion, aw’d by Rumour,
Not grave thro’ Pride, or gay thro’ Folly,
An equal Mixture of good Humour,
And sensible soft Melancholy.
`Has she no Faults then (Envy says) Sir?’
Yes she has one, I must aver:
When all the World comspires to praise her,
The Woman’s deaf, and does not hear.
A few random poems:
- English Poetry. Francis Turner Palgrave. A Churchyard in Oxfordshire. Фрэнсис Тернер Палгрев.
- Written In Juice Of Lemon
- Rememberance of that Power by sylvan lightbourne
- On the Idle Hill of Summer poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – День-деньской я с тобой, за тобой
- Entropy by Sriparna Bandyopadhyay
- One Lonely Afternoon by Russell Edson
- Swallows by Richard Schiffman
- Workin’ It Out by Shel Silverstein
- Off Mesolongi poem – Alfred Austin
- Orlando Furioso Canto 2 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Федор Сологуб – Тепло мне потому, что мой уютный дом
- To Byron poem – John Keats poems
- Аля Кудряшева – Все не то чтобы исчезло
- Robert Burns: On A Suicide:
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
- Innocence
- In The Stone I Rooted
- In Between The Strophes
- Human Joys
- Human Charms
- He Who Creates Re Creates Himself
- Hai Kou Unpublished
- Hai Kou
- Greek Light
- Greece
- Golden Eangle
- Gesture Theory A Villanelle
- Gem Immortality
- Fruit Leaf Roots Flowers
- First Verse
- First Light
- Excerpt From The Gertrude Stein Collaborative Series
- Eudaemonism In A Senryu Novel
- Drunkenness
- Do Not Get Angry
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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.