A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Happy the man, whose wish and care
A few paternal acres bound,
Content to breathe his native air
In his own ground.
Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,
Whose flocks supply him with attire;
Whose trees in summer yield shade,
In winter, fire.
Blest, who can unconcern’dly find
Hours, days, and years, slide soft away
In health of body, peace of mind,
Quiet by day.
Sound sleep by night; study and ease
Together mixed; sweet recreation,
And innocence, which most does please
With meditation.
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie.
A few random poems:
- The Pentagram poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- Immigrants by Robert Frost
- Fancy In Nubibus, Or The Poet In The Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Half The People In The World by Yehuda Amichai
- Book Third [Residence at Cambridge] by William Wordsworth
- Омар Хайям – Имей друзей поменьше, не расширяй их круг
- Ольга Берггольц – Марш оловянных солдатиков
- Cavalier Tunes: Marching Along by Robert Browning
- Book Thirteenth [Imagination And Taste, How Impaired And Restored Concluded] by William Wordsworth
- Always for the first time
- Until You’ve Found Pain by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- The Appointment by Ruth Padel
- Кариночка, любимая ты наша
- Владимир Маяковский – Не только для того, чтоб тебя накормить… (Главполитпросвет №2)
- Николай Языков – Жизни баловень счастливый
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
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Ode To A Harmonica
- Intruder
- Do You Know What Its Like
- Hellcat
- Yours & Mine poem – Alice Fulton
- Woman In Front Of Poster Of Herself poem – Alice Notley
- Velocity Of Money poem – Allen Ginsberg
- The White Cliffs
- The Next Chance
- The Melancholy of Birth
- The islands of happiness
- The Internet Romance
- The End of the World
- The Terms In Which I Think Of Reality poem – Allen Ginsberg
- Tears
- Teachers Day special
- Succeeding Sentiments.
- Stalker poem – Alice Notley
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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.