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:
- Ode To Sleep by Thomas Warton
- A Poem Of Love by Walter William Safar
- Come Into the Garde, Maud poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Doggerel by a Senior Citizen by W H Auden
- The Portrait by Siegfried Sassoon
- A Statesman’s Holiday by William Butler Yeats
- Николай Некрасов – В полном разгаре страда деревенская
- 我的妻子。 安德烈·布勒東一首關於自由戀愛的詩
- Loon Point poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Валерий Брюсов – Гимн Афродите
- Шекспир – Любовь к себе моим владеет взором – Сонет 62
- Аля Кудряшева – Ну что я могу ответить
- Владимир Маяковский – Праздновать способы разные, как мы праздник отпразднуем? (РОСТА № 383)
- Sonnet 110: Alas, ’tis true, I have gone here and there by William Shakespeare
- Not Ideas About The Thing But The Thing Itself by Wallace Stevens
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
- Hand Dark
- Granny
- Future Verdict
- Easter Decorations
- Dawnlight On The Sea
- Dawn
- Dawn God039s Sabbath
- Candle Lord
- By The Camp Fire
- By A Norfolk Broad
- Baptistry
- Aunt Dorothys Lecture
- At Sea
- At Long Last
- An Old Doll
- An Anniversary
- All Saints Day 1868
- All Saints Day 1867
- After Our Likeness
- A Story At Dusk
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Doska or the Board – write anything
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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.