A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
With scornful mien, and various toss of air,
Fantastic vain, and insolently fair,
Grandeur intoxicates her giddy brain,
She looks ambition, and she moves disdain.
Far other carriage grac’d her virgin life,
But charming G–y’s lost in P–y’s wife.
Not greater arrogance in him we find,
And this conjunction swells at least her mind:
O could the sire renown’d in glass, produce
One faithful mirror for his daughter’s use!
Wherein she might her haughty errors trace,
And by reflection learn to mend her face:
The wonted sweetness to her form restore,
Be what she was, and charm mankind once more!
A few random poems:
- A Silent Song by Pamela Griffiths
- Владимир Высоцкий – У нас вчера с позавчера
- Convalescence poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Владимир Маяковский – Песня-молния
- Владимир Маяковский – При свободной торговле… (Главполитпросвет №232)
- At the Twilight by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- Gravity Suspended
- Шекспир – Разлука сердце делит пополам – Сонет 39
- Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid’s Metamorphosis poem – Alexander Pope
- The Ravaged Face by Sylvia Plath
- A Song of Pitcairn’s Island by William Cullen Bryant
- Владимир Маяковский – Раньше были писатели белоручки… (Роста №52)
- София Парнок – Ты помнишь коридорчик узенький
- To a Certain Civilian. by Walt Whitman
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 Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
- Sonnet I
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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.