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:
- Степан Щипачев – Не громок, не бросок мой стих
- Алексей Ржевский – Долго ль прельщаться
- Upon A House Shaken By The Land Agitation by William Butler Yeats
- little teddy bear lost by Raj Arumugam
- Robert Burns: Ae Fond Kiss, And Then We Sever:
- Come home, sweetheart by Raj Arumugam
- Владимир Степанов – Следом за летом осень
- Владимир Маяковский – Трудовая взаимопомощь инвентарем (Агитплакаты)
- Sonnet. Written In Answer To A Sonnet By J. H. Reynolds poem – John Keats poems
- Владимир Корнилов – Париж
- june_sick_room.html
- Robert Burns: News, Lassies, News:
- Told by Philip Levine
- Олег Бундур – Вечером
- The Blind Man by Théophile Gautier
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
- A Young Soul
- Winter039s Fall
- Tonic For Victory
- The Tiger039s Roar
- The New Path
- Rain Falls
- Peace Or Glory
- Have Lost You
- Further You Go Longer You Stay
- Frozen Heart 2
- Fears Get Away
- Dreamer
- Don039t Lose Hope
- Counting My Past
- A Friend Forever
- Your Dream
- When I Married Halld R Laxness
- What Peace Is Like
- Upside Down
- Unrequited Pathological
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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.