Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MR. GAY, WHO WROTE HIM A CONGRATULATORY LETTER ON FINISHING HOUSE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend! 'tis true - this truth you lovers know Last Line: Bleeds drop by drop, and pants his life away. Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Houses; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) | ||||||||
(ON THE FINISHING OF HIS HOUSE) Ah friend, 'tis true -- this truth you lovers know -- In vain my structures rise, my gardens grow, In vain fair Thames reflects the double scenes Of hanging mountains, and of sloping greens: Joy lives not here; to happier seats it flies, And only dwells where WORTLEY casts her eyes. What are the gay parterre, the chequer'd shade, The morning bower, the ev'ning colonade, But soft recesses of uneasy minds, To sigh unheard in, to the passing winds? So the struck deer in some sequester'd part Lies down to die, the arrow at his heart; There, stretch'd unseen in coverts hid from day, Bleeds drop by drop, and pants his life away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IMITATION OF TIBULLUS by ALEXANDER POPE ON LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU'S PORTRAIT by ALEXANDER POPE TO LORD HERVEY AND LADY MARY WORTLEY by ALEXANDER POPE A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715 by ALEXANDER POPE A HYMN WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST by ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM by ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON MAN by ALEXANDER POPE COWLEY: THE GARDEN by ALEXANDER POPE ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY by ALEXANDER POPE ELOISA TO ABELARD by ALEXANDER POPE |
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