Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A ROMAN CATHOLIC VERSION OF THE FIRST PSALM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maid is blest that will not hear Last Line: Shall rot in drury-lane. | ||||||||
FOR THE USE OF A YOUNG LADY The Maid is Blest that will not hear Of Masquerading Tricks, Nor lends to Wanton Songs an Ear, Nor Sighs for Coach and Six. To Please her shall her Husband strive With all his Main and Might, And in her Love shall Exercise Himself both Day and Night. She shall bring forth most Pleasant Fruit, He Flourish still and Stand, Ev'n so all Things shall prosper well, That this Maid takes in Hand. No wicked Whores shall have such Luck Who follow their own Wills, But Purg'd shall be to Skin and Bone, With Mercury and Pills. For why? the Pure and Cleanly Maids Shall All, good Husbands gain: But filthy and uncleanly Jades Shall Rot in Drury-Lane. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...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 EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG by ALEXANDER POPE EPIGRAM ON QUEEN CAROLINE'S DEATHBED by ALEXANDER POPE EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE 1 by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE by ALEXANDER POPE |
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