A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
When other fair ones to the shades go down,
Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:
Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside,
And haunt the places where their honour died.
A few random poems:
- A Poetry Reading At West Point by William Matthews
- Gift Of The Great – English Translation by Rabindranath Tagore
- Birthday Ode for 31st December, 1787 by Robert Burns
- Михаил Кузмин – Заключение (Водительница Одигитрия)
- Wraiths by Siegfried Sassoon
- The Waradgery Tribe by Mary Gilmore
- Алексей Жемчужников – Причина разногласия
- Epitaph On An Infant. by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Василий Тредиаковский – В сем озере бедные любовники
- Ольга Высотская стихи: лучшие стихотворения для детей Высотской – Poetry Monster
- A Man Young And Old: VII. The Friends Of His Youth by William Butler Yeats
- Last Instructions to a Painter poem – Andrew Marvell poems
- On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catherine Thomson, my Christian Friend, Deceased Dec. 16, 1646 poem – John Milton poems
- Кондратий Рылеев – К N. N. (У вас в гостях бывать накладно)
- Robert Burns: Grace Before And After Meat :
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
- Как папа женился
- К той, что названа Кариной
- Как Лера чудо искала
- Как Муромец Илья когда-то
- Как на Масляной неделе
- К 8-му марта
- К нам приходит в день февральский снежною тропой
- Из головы у меня не выходишь
- Из всех искусств кинематограф
- Иван Варавва – Жаворонок
- Иван Варавва – В закубанском лесу
- Иван Варавва – Выйду в степь, на поля плодородные
- Иван Варавва – Раскинет объятия поле
- Иван Варавва – Соловей на веточке
- Иван Варавва – Кубань
- Иван Варавва – Мать Кубань
- Иван Варавва – На окраине села
- Иван Мятлев – Соловей
- Иван Мятлев – Старушка
- Иван Мятлев – Звезда
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
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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.