A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
You know where you did despise
(Tother day) my little Eyes,
Little Legs, and little Thighs,
And some things, of little Size,
You know where.
You, tis true, have fine black eyes,
Taper legs, and tempting Thighs,
Yet what more than all we prize
Is a Thing of little Size,
You know where.
A few random poems:
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 2. by William Cowper
- The Boy by Marilyn Hacker
- We Are To Play The Game Of Death by Rabindranath Tagore
- Told by Philip Levine
- Николай Карамзин – К версальским садам
- Алексей Жемчужников – Старик
- A Big Idea? by Satish Verma
- A Statesman’s Holiday by William Butler Yeats
- I Call That True Love by Shel Silverstein
- Ольга Седакова – Хильдегарда
- Robert Burns: Gudewife, Count The Lawin:
- Sonnet CXXXVII by William Shakespeare
- Unlike, For Example, The Sound Of A Riptooth Saw by Thomas Lux
- Sir Philip Sidney; Astrophel and Stella: XXIII by Sir Philip Sidney
- A New Age by W H Auden
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
- Recollection
- Practising The Anthem
- Practising Anthem
- Peace
- On Australian Hills
- Mirage
- Memoriam
- Mates
- Lord Nevils Advice
- Lord Nevil039s Advice
- Looking In The Fire
- Looking Fire
- Learn
- Last Battle Cid
- Influence
- Individuality
- In Memoriam
- Honour
- Home Sick
- Holy Communion
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.