A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
With no poetic ardour fir’d
I press the bed where Wilmot lay;
That here he lov’d, or here expir’d,
Begets no numbers grave or gay.
Beneath thy roof, Argyle, are bred
Such thoughts as prompt the brave to lie
Stretch’d out in honour’s nobler bed,
Beneath a nobler roof – the sky.
Such flames as high in patriots burn,
Yet stoop to bless a child or wife;
And such as wicked kings may mourn,
When freedom is more dear than life.
A few random poems:
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- Юлия Друнина – Хорошо молодое лицо
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- Жан де Лафонтен – Человек и его Изображение
- Twas’ the Night Before Christmas and Santa got Drunk by Margaret Marie Hubbard
- How To Achieve Self-Realization, The Mother of All Knowledge?
- The Gate by Marie Howe
- Where The Mind Is Without Fear by Rabindranath Tagore
- Ольга Берггольц – В доме Павлова
- The Garden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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- Николай Языков – С. П. Шевыреву (Тебе хвала, и честь, и слава)
- Ольга Берггольц – Простите бедность этих строк
- To A Young Lady. On Her Recovery From A Fever by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Italy
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
- Betrayal poem – Alice Notley
- Before you knew you owned it poem – Alice Walker
- Because We Never Practiced With The Escape Chamber poem – Alice Fulton
- Ballad Of The Skeletons poem – Allen Ginsberg
- About Face poem – Alice Fulton
- A winning lot
- 30th Birthday poem – Alice Notley
- Why?
- Where Are You?
- Tell Me
- Teacher
- Sleep
- Intruder
- Inside/Outside The Window
- Why Feed The Early Signs Of Boredom? poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Upon The Hills Of Georgia poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under The Blue Skies… poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- Under A Portrait Of Jukowsky poem – Alexander Pushkin
- To My Friends poem – Alexander Pushkin
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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.