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:
- Never Try To Trick Me With A Kiss by Sylvia Plath
- Rainbow by Ria De Torres
- Invocation To The Earth, February 1816 by William Wordsworth
- krishna039s_advice_to_arjuna.html
- My November Guest by Robert Frost
- Новелла Матвеева – Я, говорит, не воин
- Владимир Маяковский – Советская азбука (Железо куй, пока горячее…)
- Ольга Берггольц – Твоя молодость
- Olney Hymn 59: A Living And A Dead Faith by William Cowper
- Владимир Высоцкий – И в Дубне, и на Таганке что-то ставят, что-то строят
- Paralytic by Sylvia Plath
- Владимир Высоцкий – Мы вместе грабили одну и ту же хату
- Владимир Высоцкий – Песня солдата на часах
- Robert Burns: A Waukrife Minnie:
- The Unicorn by Shel Silverstein
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 Palace
- Storm
- Poor Fisherman
- Invitation
- A Banquet Song
- Written In A Volume Of The Comtesse De Noailles
- With A Copy Of Shakespeares Sonnets On Leaving College
- Vivien
- Virginibus Puerisque
- Translations Dante Inferno Canto Xxvi
- To England At The Outbreak Of The Balkan War
- Tithonus
- The Wanderer
- The Torture Of Cuauhtemoc
- The Sultans Palace
- The Rendezvous
- The Old Lowe House Staten Island
- The Nympholept
- The Need To Love
- The Hosts
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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.