Alexander Pope

"TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.     ARGUMENT.     Oedipus, King of Thebes, having, by mistake, slain his father Laius, and married his mother Joc"

"Did Milton's prose, O Charles! thy death defend?     A furious foe unconscious proves a friend.     On Milton's verse did Bentley comment? Know,"

"Grown old in rhyme, 'twere barbarous to discard     Your persevering, unexhausted bard;     Damnation follows death in other men,     But your"

"Of manners gentle, of affections mild;     In wit, a man; simplicity, a child:     With native humour tempering virtuous rage,     Form'd to de"

"Here, shunning idleness at once and praise, This radiant pile nine rural sisters raise; The glittering emblem of each spotless dame, Clear as her s"

"ADVERTISEMENT.     This paper is a sort of bill of complaint, begun many years since, and drawn up by snatches, as the several occasions offered"

"I In beauty, or wit, No mortal as yet To question your empire has dared: But men of discerning Have thought that in learning To yield to a lady"

"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit, a Man; Simplicity, a Child: With native Humour temp'ring virtuous Rage, Form'd to delight at once an"

"'Quid vetat et nosmet Lucili scripta legentes Quaerere, num illius, num rerum dura negarit Versiculos natura magis factos, et euntes Mollius?'"

"Nothing so true as what you once let fall--     'Most women have no characters at all.'     Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear,     And bes"

"While Celia's Tears make sorrow bright, Proud Grief sits swelling in her eyes; The Sun, next those the fairest light, Thus from the Ocean first did"

"The Dunciad. IN FOUR BOOKS.     A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER,     OCCASIONED BY THE FIRST CORRECT EDITION OF THE DUNCIAD.     It is with plea"

"She said, and for her lost Calanthis sighs, When the fair Consort of her son replies. "Since you a servant's ravish'd form bemoan, And kindly sigh"

"ARGUMENT.     OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.     That it is not sufficient for this knowledge to consider man in the abstract: books"

"I. In ev'ry Town, where Thamis rolls his Tyde, A narrow pass there is, with Houses low; Where ever and anon, the Stream is ey'd, And many a Boat"

"ISAACUS NEWTONUS: QUEM IMMORTALEM TESTANTUR TEMPUS, NATURA, COELUM: MORTALEM HOC MARMOR FATETUR. Nature and Nature's laws lay hid i"

"Descend, ye Nine! descend and sing; The breathing instruments inspire, Wake into voice each silent string, And sweep the sounding lyre;"

"IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS. SPENSER. In every town, where Thamis rolls his tyde, A narrow pass there is, with houses low; Where ever and ano"

"IMMITATION OF ENGLISH POETS. COWLEY Fain would my Muse the flowery treasures sing, And humble glories of the youthful Spring; Where opening roses bre"

"Here, Withers, rest! thou bravest, gentlest mind, Thy country's friend, but more of human kind. Oh, born to arms! oh, worth in youth approved! Oh, sof"

"When Eastern lovers feed the funeral fire, On the same pile the faithful pair expire. Here pitying Heaven that virtue mutual found, And blasted both,"

"Again? new tumults in my breast? Ah, spare me, Venus! let me, let me rest! I am not now, alas! the man As in the gentle reign of my Queen Anne. Ah"

"Lest you should think that verse shall die, Which sounds the silver Thames along, Taught, on the wings of truth to fly Above the reach of"

"THE THIRD PASTORAL, Or HYLAS AND ÆGON. TO MR WYCHERLEY. Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays, Hylas and Ægon sung their rural lays; This mou"

"THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE. TO THE MEMORY OF MRS TEMPEST. LYCIDAS. Thyrsis, the music of that murmuring spring Is not so mournful as the strain"

"SHE.     Yes, we have lived--one pang, and then we part!     May Heaven, dear father! now have all thy heart.     Yet ah! how once we loved, r"

"A Bishop, by his neighbours hated,     Has cause to wish himself translated:     But why should Hough desire translation,     Loved and esteem'"

"Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! Soft B'"

"So when Curlls Stomach the strong Drench oercame, (Infusd in Vengenance of insulted Fame) Th Avenger sees, with a delighted Eye, His long Jaws"

"Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night! Of darkness visible so much be lent, As half to show, half veil, t"

"I. Silence! coeval with Eternity; Thou wert, ere Nature's-self began to be, 'Twas one vast Nothing, all, and all slept fast in thee. II. Thine w"

"Parson, these things in thy possessing Are better than the Bishop's blessing. A Wife that makes conserves; a Steed That carries double when there's"

"Thou who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave     Shines a broad mirror through the shadowy cave;     Where lingering drops from mineral r"

"The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings, I sing. Say you, her instruments the great! Called to this work"

"ARGUMENT.     OF THE USE OF RICHES.     That it is known to few, most falling into one of the extremes, avarice or profusion, ver. 1., &c. The"

"When wise Ulysses, from his native coast Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss'd, Arrived at last, poor, old, disguised, alone, To all his f"

"1 Generous, gay, and gallant nation,     Bold in arms, and bright in arts;     Land secure from all invasion,     All but Cupid's gentle darts!"

"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"

"Friend, for your epitaphs I'm grieved,     Where still so much is said;     One half will never be believed,     The other never read."

"Fr. 'Tis all a libel--Paxton[203] (sir) will say. P. Not yet, my friend! to-morrow, faith, it may; And for that very cause I print to-day. How should"

"ARGUMENT.     OF THE USE OF RICHES.     The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word 'taste,' ver. 13. That th"

"Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain, The sun first rises o'er the purpled main, Than, issuing forth, the rival of his beams Launch'd on t"

"Come gentle Air! th' AEolian shepherd said, While Procris panted in the secret shade: Come, gentle Air, the fairer Delia cries, While at her feet h"

"Behold the woes of matrimonial life,     And hear with reverence an experienced wife!     To dear-bought wisdom give the credit due,     And th"

"I am his Highness' dog at Kew; Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you"

"Soon as Glumdalclitch miss'd her pleasing care,     She wept, she blubber'd, and she tore her hair:     No British miss sincerer grief has known"

"Father of all! In every age, In ev'ry clime ador'd, By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou Great First Cause, least under"

"Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails;     For nothing's left in either of the scales."

"ARGUMENT.     After the other persons are disposed in their proper places of rest, the goddess transports the king to her temple, and there lays"

"The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign; Of all the Virgins of the sylvan train, None taught the trees a nobler race to bear, Or more improv'd the"

"'His saltem accumulem donis, et fungar inani Munere!'     VIRG.     Dorset, the grace of courts, the Muses' pride,     Patron of arts, and ju"

"Whence deathless 'Kit-cat' took its name,     Few critics can unriddle:     Some say from 'pastrycook' it came,     And some, from 'cat' and 'f"

"TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT.     ARGUMENT.     The proposition, the invocation, and the inscription. Then the original of the great empire of Dulnes"

"Strange! all this difference should be     'Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!"

"Father of all! in every age,     In every clime adored,     By saint, by savage, and by sage,     Jehovah, Jove, or Lord!     Thou great Firs"

"A soul as full of worth, as void of pride,     Which nothing seeks to show, or needs to hide,     Which nor to guilt nor fear its caution owes,"

"The First Epistle Awake, my St. John!(1) leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of Kings. Let us (since Life can little more sup"

"This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse     This from no venal or ungrateful Muse.     Whether thy hand strike out some free design,"

"Nothing so true as what you once let fall, "Most Women have no Characters at all." Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear, And best distinguish'd b"

"CARDELIA.     The basset-table spread, the tallier come;     Why stays Smilinda in the dressing-room?     Rise, pensive nymph, the tallier wai"