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:
- A Poetical Epistle To Lady Austen by William Cowper
- Dane-Geld by Rudyard Kipling
- English Poetry. Rupert Chawner Brooke. The Vision of the Archangels. Руперт Брук.
- Upon Appleton House, to My Lord Fairfax poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- The Princess (part 7) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
- Николай Карамзин – Триолет Алете в тот день, как ей исполнилось 14 лет
- Николай Языков – Прощальная песня (В последний раз приволье жизни братской)
- Михаил Кузмин – Уж не слышен конский топот
- Василий Курочкин – Дама приятная во всех отношениях
- Владимир Высоцкий – О знаках Зодиака
- Sonnet 19: Devouring Time blunt thou the lion’s paws by William Shakespeare
- Владимир Костров – Не банкира, не детей Арбата
- Fairy Land v by William Shakespeare
- Song Of Faiz Ulla
- The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare
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
- I Dream I M The Death Of Orpheus
- From An Atlas Of The Difficult World
- From A Survivor
- Fox
- For This
- For The Record
- For The Dead
- Final Notions
- Diving Into The Wreck
- Diving Wreck
- Cartographies Of Silence
- Burning Oneself Out
- Aunt Jennifer039s Tigers
- Aunt Jennifers Tigers
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- The Ugly Little Bird
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- Mountain Wellhead
- In The Bus That Is Frantically Rushing From Cairo To Port Said
- Youth
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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.