A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period
In merry old England it once was the rule
The King had his poet and also his fool
But now were so frugal I have you to know it
That Cibber can serve both for fool and for poet!
A few random poems:
- Владимир Степанов – Что мы Родиной зовём
- Whitsuntide An’ Club Walken by William Barnes
- On Wenlock Edge The Wood’s In Trouble poem – A. E. Housman
- Владимир Высоцкий – Я стою, стою спиною к строю
- Владимир Высоцкий – Заказал я два коктейля
- A slant of sun on dull brown walls, by Stephen Crane
- Courtship by Mark Strand
- The Other Side of Panic by Martina Reisz Newberry
- The Dark Cavalier by Margaret Widdemer
- Poems On Beauty by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Heritage by Siegfried Sassoon
- Владимир Маяковский – Нас потеснили… (РОСТА №337)
- So You Say by Mark Strand
- Владимир Маяковский – Небылицы в лицах
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry. by Walt Whitman
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 Hosts
- The Deserted Garden
- The Bayadere
- The Aisne
- Tezcotzinco
- Sonnet Xvi Who Shall Invoke Her
- Sonnet Xv
- Sonnet Xiv
- Sonnet Xiii
- Sonnet Xii
- Sonnet Xi
- Sonnet X
- Sonnet Viii
- Sonnet Vii
- Sonnet Vi
- Sonnet V
- Sonnet Ix
- Sonnet Iv
- Sonnet Iii
- Sonnet Ii
More external links (open in a new tab):
Doska or the Board – write anything
Search engines:
Yandex – the best search engine for searches in Russian (and the best overall image search engine, in any language, anywhere)
Qwant – the best search engine for searches in French, German as well as Romance and Germanic languages.
Ecosia – a search engine that supposedly… plants trees
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.