A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
Vital spark of heav’nly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame:
Trembling, hoping, ling’ring, flying,
O the pain, the bliss of dying!
Cease, fond Nature, cease thy strife,
And let me languish into life.
Hark! they whisper; angels say,
Sister Spirit, come away!
What is this absorbs me quite?
Steals my senses, shuts my sight,
Drowns my spirits, draws my breath?
Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
The world recedes; it disappears!
Heav’n opens on my eyes! my ears
With sounds seraphic ring!
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O Grave! where is thy victory?
O Death! where is thy sting?
A few random poems:
- Ольга Седакова – Неужели, Мария, только рамы скрипят
- Thomas Gray – Thomas Gray
- Tale of the Pope and of His Workman Balda
- Stir in Stillness by Shruti Talnikar
- Lepracaun or Fairy Shoemaker, The by William Allingham
- To M C N
- Lover’s Gifts XXVIII: I Dreamt by Rabindranath Tagore
- Федор Сологуб – Под черёмухой цветущей
- Олег Бундур – Железное здоровье
- Poetic Justice by Robby Charters
- I am only the house of your beloved by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Владимир Корнилов – Жара
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- hoppity.html
- Elegy to the Old Man Hokuju by Yosa Buson
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
- Василий Жуковский – Библия
- Василий Жуковский – Бедный певец
- Василий Жуковский – Ахилл
- Василий Жуковский – Адельстан
- Василий Жуковский – 19 марта 1823
- Василий Жуковский – К Перовскому (Счастливец, ею ты любим)
- Василий Жуковский – К Нине (О Нина, о Нина)
- Василий Жуковский – К ней
- Василий Жуковский – К мимо пролетавшему гению
- Василий Жуковский – К князю Вяземскому
- Василий Жуковский – К кн. Вяземскому и В.Л.Пушкину
- Василий Жуковский – К Филону
- Василий Жуковский – К Дмитриеву (Нет, не прошла)
- Василий Жуковский – Из альбома, подаренного Ростопчиной (Пушкин)
- Василий Жуковский – Гомер
- Василий Жуковский – Государыне великой княгине на рождение
- Василий Жуковский – Голос с того света
- Василий Жуковский – Герой
- Василий Жуковский – Гаральд
- Василий Жуковский – Эолова арфа
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
Duckduckgo – the real alternative and a search engine that actually works. Without much censorship or partisan politics.
Yahoo– yes, it’s still around, amazingly, miraculously, incredibly, but now it seems to be powered by Bing.
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.