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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Keyword: alexander pope Matches Found: 284 A CHARACTER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark what wretched steps great ** grows Last Line: A tale! That blends the glory with the shame! Subject(s): Churchill, John. 1st Duke Of Marlborough A DIALOGUE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since my old friend is grown so great Last Line: Tis pope must be asham'd of craggs. Subject(s): Craggs, James (1657-1721) A DIALOGUE. TO THE MEMORY OF MR. ALEXANDER POPE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, pope, the twitnam bard Last Line: I fling my cap for polish -- and for pope! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, damn'd distracting town, farewell! Last Line: And so may starve with me. Subject(s): London; Montagu, Charles. 1st Earl Of Halifax; Tonson, Jacob (1656-1736) A HYMN WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Once pleasing, once inspiring shade Last Line: And love the brightest eyes, but love in vain! Variant Title(s): Lines Written In Windsor Forest Subject(s): Windsor Forest, England A ROMAN CATHOLIC VERSION OF THE FIRST PSALM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maid is blest that will not hear Last Line: Shall rot in drury-lane. A WINTER PIECE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when the freezing blasts of boreas blow Last Line: Whose dazling lustre whitens all the skies. Subject(s): Winter ALEXANDER POPE, by JOHN GAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See what delights in sylvan scenes appear Last Line: And all things flourish where you turn your eyes Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ALEXANDER POPE AT STANTON HARCOURT, by SIDNEY KEYES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So to his perch appropriate with owls Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ALEXANDER POPE AT THE HOUSE OF CARNAL RECREATION, 1715, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: Very pretty of cibber and warwick Last Line: Forever at the mercy of my rapier quill AN EPISTLE TO HENRY CROMWELL, ESQ., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear mr. Cromwell, / may it please ye! Last Line: But which, I cannot tell you truly. AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Last Line: Not free from faults, nor yet too vain to mend. Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Dillon, Wentworth. 4th Earl Of Roscommon; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Erasmus, Desiderius (1466-1536); Hope; Mnemonics; Poetry & Poets; Sozzini, Lelio (1525-1562); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Optimism; Soc AN ESSAY ON MAN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, my st. John! Leave all meaner things Last Line: And all our knowledge is, ourselves to know. Subject(s): Human Behavior; Mankind; Nature; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Human Race ARGUS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When wise ulysses, from his native coast Last Line: Own'd his returning lord, look'd up, and dy'd! Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus AUTUMN. THE THIRD PASTORAL, ORHYLAS AND AEGON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the shade a spreading beech displays Last Line: And the low sun had lengthen'd ev'ry shade. Subject(s): Autumn; Country Life; Seasons; Fall BASSET-TABLE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography BOUNCE TO FOP; EPISTLE .. DOG AT TWICKENHAM TO DOG AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, sweet fop, these lines I send Last Line: And roar in numbers worthy bounce. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs CARING FOR ONE'S MOTHER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To rock the cradle of reposing age Last Line: And keep awhile one parent from the sky! Subject(s): Mothers CELIA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celia, we know, is sixty-five CHORUS TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS: 1. OF ATHENIANS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought Last Line: Some athens perishes, some tully bleeds. Subject(s): Athens, Greece CHORUS TO THE TRAGEDY OF BRUTUS: 2. OF YOUTHS AND VIRGINS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh tyrant love! Hast thou possest Last Line: Sacred hymen! These are thine. Subject(s): Love COUPLET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jove was alike to latian and to phrygian Last Line: For you well know, that wit's of no religion. Subject(s): Writing & Writers COUPLET FROM HORACE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In unambitious silence be my lot Last Line: Yet ne'er a friend forgetting, till forgot. COUPLET ON HIS GROTTO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And life itself can nothing more supply Last Line: Than just to plan our projects, and to die. Subject(s): Life COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred and thirty years' nap Last Line: Enter shakespear, with a loud clap. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON SHAKESPEAR'S MONUMENT (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus britain lov'd me; and preserv'd my fame Last Line: Clear from a barber's or a benson's name. Subject(s): Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) COUPLET ON WIT: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But our great turks in wit must reign alone Last Line: And ill can bear a brother on the throne. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wit is like faith by such warm fools profest Last Line: Who to be saved by one, must damn the rest. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some who grow dull religious strait commence Last Line: And gain in morals what they lose in sence. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 4, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wits starve as useless to a common weal Last Line: While fools have places purely for their zeal. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 5, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now wits gain praise by copying other wits Last Line: As one hog lives on what another sh--. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COUPLET ON WIT: 6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wou'd you your writings to some palates fit Last Line: They praise no works but what are like their own. Subject(s): Wit & Humor COWLEY: THE GARDEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would my muse the flow'ry treasures sing Last Line: And winter's coolness spite of summer's rays. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Gardens & Gardening DUKE UPON DUKE; A NEW BALLAD TO THE TUNE OF CHEVY CHASE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To lordings proud I lay my tune Last Line: That pride will have a fall. Subject(s): Guise, Sir John (1677-1732); Politics & Government E. OF DORSET: 1. ARTIMESIA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' artemisia talks, by fits Last Line: All flutter, pride, and talk. Subject(s): Boyle, Robert (1627-1691); Locke, John (1632-1704); Malebranche, Nicolas De (1638-1715); Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl Of Dorset; Science; Buckhurst, Baron; Scientists E. OF DORSET: 2. PHRYNE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Phryne had talents for mankind Last Line: Then painted butterflies. Subject(s): Courtesans; Sackville, Thomas, 1st Earl Of Dorset; Buckhurst, Baron ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What beckoning ghost, along the moonlight shade Last Line: The muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more! Variant Title(s): Verses To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady;elegy To The Death Of An Unfortunate Lady Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The ELOISA TO ABELARD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these deep solitudes and awful cells Last Line: He best can paint 'em, who shall feel 'em most. Subject(s): Abelard, Peter (1079-1144); Heloise (1098-1164); Philosophy & Philosophers; Eloise; Eloisa EPIGRAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When other ladies to the groves go down Last Line: And haunt the places where their honour dy'd. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPIGRAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lord complains the pope, stark mad with gardens EPIGRAM ... SEEING SOME SHEETS OF MILTON'S PARADISE LOST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did milton's prose, o charles, thy death defend? Last Line: The murd'rous critic has aveng'd thy murder. Subject(s): Milton, John (1608-1674) EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am his highness' dog at kew Last Line: Pray tell me sir, whose dog are you? Variant Title(s): Inscribed On The Collar Of A Dog;on The Collar Of A Dog Presented By Mr. Pope;engraved On The Collar Of A Dog [which I Gave To His Royal Highness] Subject(s): Animals; Dogs EPIGRAM IN BEHALF OF MR. SOUTHERNE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Argyle his praise, when southerne wrote Last Line: They'll fit no man alive. Subject(s): Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Southern, Thomas EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the lines that you sent, are the muses and graces Last Line: You have the nine in your wit, and three in your faces. EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They may talk of the goddesses in ida vales Last Line: But you show your wit, whereas they show'd their tails. Subject(s): Wit & Humor EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You bellendene, griffin, and little la pell Last Line: And send what argyle, would he write, might have writ. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 4, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adam had fallen twice, if for an apple Last Line: The d--l had brought him bellendene and la pell. EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 5, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On sunday at six, in the street that's call'd gerrard Last Line: You may meet the two champions who are no lord s--d. EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY AN INVITATION TO COURT: 6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say argyll's a wit for what? Last Line: For writing? No, -- for writing not. Subject(s): Wit & Humor EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O nash! More blest in ev'ry other thing Last Line: And all mankind, but cibber, sing thy praise. Subject(s): "cibber, Colley (1671-1757); Nash, Richard (""beau"") (1674-1762); EPIGRAM OCCASIONED BY CIBBER'S VERSES IN PRAISE OF NASH: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cibber! Write all thy verses upon glasses Last Line: The only way to save 'em from our a--s. Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) EPIGRAM ON A PICTURE OF QUEEN CAROLINE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! What room for flattry, or for pride! Last Line: This single crayon, madam, saints the queen. Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England EPIGRAM ON BISHOP HOUGH, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bishop, by his neighbors hates Last Line: And whither enoch went before him. Subject(s): Hough, John. Bishop Of Worcester EPIGRAM ON CIBBER'S DECLARATION THAT HE WILL HAVE LAST WORD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quoth cibber to pope, tho' in verse you foreclose Last Line: For know, the last word is the word that lasts longest. Subject(s): Cibber, Colley (1671-1757) EPIGRAM ON DENNIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should d-- s print how once you robb'd your brother Last Line: Secure in dullness, madness, want, and age. Subject(s): Dennis, John (1657-1734) EPIGRAM ON DR. ALURED CLARKE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let clarke make half his life the poor's support Last Line: But let him give the other half to court. Subject(s): Clarke, Alured. Dean Of Exeter EPIGRAM ON J.M.S., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To prove himself no plagiary, moore Last Line: Who shew'd his breech, to prove 'twas not besh -- Subject(s): Smyth, James Moore EPIGRAM ON J.M.S. GENT., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A gold watch found on a cinder whore Last Line: Not that they're rich, but that they steal. Subject(s): Prostitution; Smyth, James Moore; Harlots; Whores; Brothels EPIGRAM ON LOPPING TREES IN HIS GARDEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr ld. Complains, that p-- (stark mad with gardens) Last Line: A lord's acquaintance? -- let him file his bill. Subject(s): Trees EPIGRAM ON MR. M--RE'S GOING TO LAW WITH MR. GILLIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in his life m--re judges right Last Line: Who's but a publisher himself. Subject(s): Smyth, James Moore EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend! For your epitaphs I'm griev'd Last Line: The other never read. EPIGRAM ON QUEEN CAROLINE'S DEATHBED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies wrapped up in forty thousand towels Last Line: The only proof that c*** had bowels. Subject(s): Caroline Of Ansbach. Queen Of England; Hate EPIGRAM ON THE CANDIDATES FOR THE LAUREL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall royal praise be rhym'd by such a ribald Last Line: Oh! Save the salary, and drink the sack! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM ON THE CANDIDATES FOR THE LAUREL (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold! Ambitious of the british bays Last Line: For duck can thresh, you know, as well as write. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONOCINI, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange! All this difference should be EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whence deathless kit-cat took its name Last Line: Of old cats and young kits. Subject(s): Kit-kat, Club; Names EPIGRAM, IN A MAID OF HONOUR'S PRAYER-BOOK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When israel's daughters mourn'd their past offences Last Line: As decent to repent in, as to sin in. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPIGRAM. IMITATED BY GOLDSMITH, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well then, poor g- lies under the ground Last Line: Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On G -- Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732) EPIGRAM. OZELL'S TRANSLATION OF BOILEAU'S LUTRIN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ozell, at sanger's call, invoked his muse Last Line: Who the plain-dealer damns, and prints the biter. Variant Title(s): The Translator Subject(s): Boileau, Nicholas (1636-1711); Translating & Interpreting EPIGRAM: ON AUTHORS AND BOOKSELLERS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What authors lose, their booksellers have won Last Line: So pimps grow rich, while gallants are undone. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Booksellers; Bookstores EPIGRAM: ON POETS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Damnation follows death in other men Last Line: But your damn'd poet lives and writes agen. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPILOGUE TO ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE,' DESIGNED FOR MRS. OLDFIELD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Prodigious this! The frail-one of our play Last Line: Come here in crowds, and stare the strumpet down. Subject(s): Marriage; Oldfield, Anne (1683-1730); Plays & Playwrights; Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not twice a twelvemonth you appear in print Last Line: Show there was one who held it in disdain. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis all a libel -- paxton, sir, will say Last Line: And write next winter more essays on man. Subject(s): Dalrymple, John. 2d Earl Of Stair; Hough, John. Bishop Of Worcester; Stair, Marshal (1673-1747) EPISTLE TO A YOUNG LADY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this strange town a different course we take Last Line: And if poor pope is cl-pt, the fault is yours. EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shut, shut the door, good john! Fatigued I said Last Line: Thus far was right, the rest belongs to heav'n. Variant Title(s): Prologue To The Satires Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Booksellers; Critics & Criticism; Gay, John (1685-1732); Hate; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government; Writing & Writers; Bookstores; Doctors EPISTLE TO JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ; SECRETARY OF STATE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A soul as full of worth, as void of pride Last Line: If not, 'tis I must be ashamed of you. Subject(s): Craggs, James (1657-1721) EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care Last Line: Look sow'r, and hum a tune -- as you may now. Variant Title(s): Epistle To Miss Blount, On Her Leaving The Town;to A Young Lady On Her Leaving The Town Subject(s): Absence; Cities; Separation; Isolation; Urban Life EPISTLE TO MR. JERVAS, WITH FRESNOY'S ART OF PAINTING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This verse be thine, my friend, nor thou refuse Last Line: Thou but preserv'st a face and I a name. Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700); Dufresnoy, Charles Alphonse (1611-1665); Granville, George. Lord Lansdowne; Paintings And Painters EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these gay thoughts the loves and graces shine Last Line: Still to charm those who charm the world beside. Variant Title(s): To Miss Blout, With The Works Of Voiture Subject(s): Books; Voiture, Vincent De (1598-1648); Reading EPISTLE TO ROBERT, EARL OF OXFORD, AND EARL MORTIMER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such were the notes thy once-lov'd poet sung Last Line: Nor fears to tell, that mortimer is he. Subject(s): Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Mortimer, Earl Of EPITAPH, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a round woman, who thought mighty odd Last Line: And now she's in t'other, she thinks it but queer. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH DESIGNED FOR MR. DRYDEN'S MONUMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This sheffield rais'd. The sacred dust below Last Line: Was dryden once: the rest who does not know? Subject(s): Dryden, John (1631-1700) EPITAPH FOR ONE WHO WOULD NOT BE BURIED IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heroes and kings! Your distance keep Last Line: Let horace blush, and virgil too. Subject(s): Twickenham, England; Westminster Abbey EPITAPH FROM THE LATIN ON THE COUNT OF MIRANDULA: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies lord coningsby - be civil Last Line: The rest god knows -- so does the devil. Subject(s): Coningsby, Thomas, Lord (1656-1729); Epitaphs; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni. Conte EPITAPH FROM THE LATIN ON THE COUNT OF MIRANDULA: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here francis c- lies. Be civil Last Line: The rest god knows -- perhaps the devil. Subject(s): Chartres, Francis (1675-1732); Crime & Criminals; Pico Della Mirandola, Giovanni. Conte EPITAPH INTENDED FOR MR. ROWE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy relicks, rowe, to this fair urn we trust Last Line: What a whole thankless land to his denies. Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH INTENDED FOR SIR ISAAC NEWTON, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, and nature's laws lay hid in night Last Line: God said, let newton be! And all was light. Variant Title(s): Science Subject(s): Epitaphs; Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727) EPITAPH ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dorset, the grace of the courts, the muses' pride Last Line: And patriots still, or poets, deck the line. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Sackville, Charles. 6th Earl Of Dorset EPITAPH ON DR. FRANCIS ATTERBURY, BISHOP OF ROCHESTER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, we have liv'd - one pang, and then we part! Last Line: -- he said, and dy'd. EPITAPH ON EDMUND DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If modest youth, with cool reflection crown'd Last Line: Pays the last tribute of a saint to heav'n. EPITAPH ON GENERAL HENRY WHITHERS, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here withers rest! Thou bravest, gentlest mind Last Line: The last true briton lies beneath this stone. Subject(s): Epitaphs EPITAPH ON HIMSELF, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under this marble, or under this sill Last Line: Trusts in god, that as well as he was, he shall be. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) EPITAPH ON JAMES CRAGGS, ESQ.; IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Statesman, yet friend to truth! Of soul sincere Last Line: Prais'd, wept, and honour'd, by the muse he lov'd. Subject(s): Craggs, James (1657-1721); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON JAMES MOORE SMYTHE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes what had not birth, nor shape, nor fame Last Line: Ex nihilo nihil fit. Subject(s): Smyth, James Moore EPITAPH ON JAMES MOORE-SMYTHE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies what had not birth, nor shape, nor fame Last Line: For how can no-thing be annihilated? Subject(s): Epitaphs; Hate EPITAPH ON JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW: 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When eastern lovers feed the fun'ral fire Last Line: Sent his own lightning, and the victims seiz'd. Subject(s): Love EPITAPH ON JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW: 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not by rigorous judgment seiz'd Last Line: And face the flash that melts the ball. Subject(s): Love EPITAPH ON JOHN HEWET AND SARAH DREW: 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lye two poor lovers, who had the mishap Last Line: Tho very chaste people, to die of a clap. EPITAPH ON JOHN KNIGHT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest pattern to a failing age Last Line: In death, by friendship, honour, virtue; mourn'd. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement EPITAPH ON JOHN LORD CARYLL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A manly form; a bold, yet modest mind Last Line: Look on this marble, and be vain no more! EPITAPH ON LADY KNELLER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day I mean to fill sir godfry's tomb Last Line: For I am very large, and very wide. EPITAPH ON MR. ELIJAH FENTON, AT EASTHAMSTED IN BERKS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This modest stone what few vain marbles can Last Line: Thank'd heav'n that he had liv'd, and that he dy'd. EPITAPH ON MR. GAY IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of manners gentle, of affections mild Last Line: Striking their pensive bosoms -- here lies gay. Variant Title(s): On Mr. Gay Subject(s): Gay, John (1685-1732); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON MR. ROWE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy reliques, rowe! To this sad shrine we trust Last Line: That holds their ashes and expects her own. Subject(s): Rowe, Nicholas (1674-1718); Westminster Abbey EPITAPH ON MRS. CORBET, WHO DYED OF A CANCER IN HER BREAST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a woman, good without pretence Last Line: The saint sustain'd it, but the woman dy'd. Variant Title(s): On Mrs. Corbet Subject(s): Cancer, Breast EPITAPH ON P.P. CLERK OF THE PARISH, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O reader, if that thou canst read Last Line: That never spareth none. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH ON SIR GODFREY KNELLER IN WESTMINSTER-ABBY 1723, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kneller, by heav'n, and not by a master, taught Last Line: Her works; and dying, fears herself may die. Subject(s): Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Westminster Abbey; Kniller, Gottfried EPITAPH ON SIR WILLIAM TRUMBULL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pleasing form; a firm, yet cautious mind Last Line: At length enjoys that liberty he lov'd. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Sir William Trumbal Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers EPITAPH ON THE HON. SIMON HARCOURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To this sad shrine, who'er thou art! Draw near Last Line: And with a father's sorrows mix his own! EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF ROBERT DIGBY, AND HIS SISTER MARY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Fair example of untainted youth Last Line: Tis all a father, all a friend can give! Subject(s): Death - Children; Death - Babies EPRIGRAM. ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pope's dog bounce had, to the poet's sorrow Subject(s): Animals ESSAY ON MAN: EPISTLE 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Force first made conquest, and the conquest, law Last Line: Draw to one point, and to one centre bring %beast, man, or angel, servant, lord, or king Subject(s): Freedom; Religion EXCESSIVE PRAISE OR BLAME, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Avoid extremes; and shun the FRAGMENT OF BRUTUS, AN EPIC, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The patient chief, who lab'ring long, arriv'd Last Line: My countrys poet, to record her fame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets HAPPINESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Know then this truth (enough for a man to know) Last Line: And strongest motive to assist the rest Variant Title(s): Virtue, The Sole Unfailing Happiness;on Virtue Subject(s): Mothers HAPPINESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Know then this truth (enough for a man to know) Variant Title(s): Virtue, The Sole Unfailing Happiness; On Virtu Subject(s): Mothers HORACE, SATYR 4.1 PARAPHRASED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fop, whose pride affects a patron's name Last Line: But such a babling coxcomb in his stead. IMITATION OF CHAUCER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women ben full of ragerie Last Line: Then trust on mon, whose yerde can talke.' Variant Title(s): Chaucer Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400) IMITATION OF MARTIAL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length my friend (while time, with still career) Last Line: The present well, and ev'n the past enjoy. Subject(s): Contentment IMITATION OF TIBULLUS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here stopt by hasty death, alexis lies Last Line: Who crost half europe, led by wortley's eyes! Subject(s): Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 1.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: St. John, whose love indulg'd my labours past Last Line: A fit of vapours clouds this demi-god. Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians; St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Doctors; Viscount Bolingbroke IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 1.6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to admire, is all the art I know' Last Line: Why do, I'll follow them with all my heart. IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 1.7, SELECTION, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, my lord, I gave my word Last Line: But you may read it, I stop short. IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe. Variant Title(s): To Augustus Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear col'nel, corbham's and your country's friend Last Line: Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please. Subject(s): Language; Words; Vocabulary IMITATIONS OF HORACE: ODE IV, 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again? New tumults in my breast? Last Line: And now, on rolling waters snatch'd away. Variant Title(s): To Venus Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Middle Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SATIRE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are (I scarce can think it, but am told) Last Line: My lords the judges laugh, and you're dismiss'd. Variant Title(s): First Satire Of Second Book Of Horace Imitated IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SATIRE 2.2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, and how great, the virtue and the art Last Line: Let us be fix'd, and our own masters still. Subject(s): Gluttony IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SATIRE 2.6, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've often wish'd that I had clear Last Line: A crust of bread, and liberty.' Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) IMITATIONS OF HORACE: SERMON 1.2. SOBER ADVICE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tribe of templars, play'rs, apothecaries Last Line: This truth, let l--l, f--ys, o--w tell. IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHILSEA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you boast, poetic names of yore Last Line: But shines himself till they are seen no more. Subject(s): Finch, Anne. Countess Of Winchilsea; Women IN IMITATION OF COWLEY: 1. WEEPING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While celia's tears make sorrow bright Last Line: To set, like him, heav'n too on fire. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) IN IMITATION OF COWLEY: 2. PRESENTING A LARK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go tuneful bird, forebear to soar Last Line: While wretched lovers sing in vain. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667) IN IMITATION OF COWLEY: 3. THE RIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail sacred spring, whose fruitful stream Last Line: Till mischief learn'd to mix with wine. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Rivers IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 1. OF A LADY SINGING TO HER LUTE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair charmer, cease, nor make your voice's prize Last Line: This vocal wood had drawn the poet too. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 2. OF THE LADY WOULD NOT SLEEP ..., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As gods sometimes descend from heav'n and deign Last Line: But serenissa must becalm the breast. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 3. OF HER PICTURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The nymph her graces here express'd may find Last Line: Not for his own, but hers, the youth had dy'd. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 4. OF HER SICKNESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah serenissa, from our arms Last Line: You are not now invincible. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 5. OF HER WALKING IN A GARDEN ..., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See how the sun in dusky skies Last Line: But if she disappears, I dye. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) IN IMITATION OF WALLER: 6. OF HER SIGHING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love would strike th' offending fair Last Line: Th' arabian coast, and waft us on our way. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) INSCRIPTIO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou! Whose sense, whose humour, and whose rage Last Line: And brings the true saturnian age of lead. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) INSCRIPTION, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nymph of the grot, these sacred springs I keep Last Line: And drink in silence, or in silence lave! INSCRIPTION ON A GROTTO OF SHELLS AT CRUX-EASTON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here shunning idleness at once and praise Last Line: And hid in desarts what wou'd charm a court. Variant Title(s): Inscription On A Grotto, The Work Of Nine Ladies INSCRIPTION ON A PUNCH-BOWL, IN SOUTH-SEA YEAR FOR A CLUB, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, fill the south sea goblet full Last Line: And jove with joy puts off the bear. INSCRIPTION. MARTHA BLOUNT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each pretty carecter with pleasing smart Last Line: Deepens the dear idea in my heart. LETTER TO CROMWELL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, / this letter greets you from the shades Last Line: A. Pope. LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 1. ON DULLNESS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus dullness, the safe opiate of the mind Last Line: With dulness first began, in dulness last must end. Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 2. OF THE BYPASS OF A BOWL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poize of dulness to the heavy skull Last Line: The nearer to its end, or purpose, home. LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 3. OF WEIGHTS OF A CLOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So clocks to lead their nimble motions owe Last Line: Actuates, maintains, and rules the moving frame. Subject(s): Clocks; Time LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 4. SIMILITUDES, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus either men in private useless ease Last Line: Kept fresh by motion, and unchang'd by change. LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 5. SOLITUDE AND RETIREMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honour and wealth, the joys we seek, deny Last Line: A type of paradise, the rural scene! Subject(s): Solitude; Loneliness LINES ADDED TO WYCHERLEY'S POEMS: 6. CONCLUSION, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length the board, in loose disjointed chat Last Line: But 'tis of each, the little, and the good. LINES BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fluttering spread thy purple pinions LINES FROM ALCANDER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shields, helms, and swords all jangle as they hang Last Line: That even humble seems a term too high. LINES FROM THE ART OF SINKING, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For whom thus rudely pleads my loud-tongu'd gate Last Line: And strip white ceres of her nut-brown coat. LINES IN CONCLUSION OF A SATIRE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But what avails to lay down rules for sense? Last Line: When ambrose philips was preferr'd for wit! Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749) LINES ON BOUNCE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah bounce! Ah gentle beast! Why wouldst thou dye Last Line: When thou had'st meat enough, and orrery? Subject(s): Animals; Dogs LINES ON COFFEE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As long as moco's happy tree shall grow Last Line: So long her honour, name, and praise shall last! Subject(s): Coffee LINES ON CURLL, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So when curll's stomach the strong drench o'ercame Last Line: Smiles on the vomit, and enjoys the purge. Subject(s): Poisons And Poisoning LINES ON MINISTERS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But ministers like gladiators live Last Line: Dies between exigents, and self defence. Subject(s): Politics & Government LINES ON MR. HATTON'S CLOCKS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From hour to hour melodiously they chime Last Line: With silver sounds, and sweetly tune out time. Subject(s): Clocks; Time LINES ON SWIFT'S ANCESTORS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jonathan swift / had the gift Last Line: For england hath its own. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) LINES ON WRITING A TRAGEDY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, by all melting joys of love Last Line: -- am I not fit to write a tragedy? Subject(s): Writing & Writers LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI WHEN SHE TOOK LEAVE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gen'rous, gay, and gallant nation LINES TO A FRIEND WRITTEN AT HIS MOTHER'S BEDSIDE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While ev'ry joy, successful youth! Is thinw Last Line: Thus far, is right; the rest belongs to heav'n. LINES TO ALEXANDER POPE, by DAVID LEWIS (1683-1760) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: While malice, pope, denies thy page Variant Title(s): When None Shall Rai LINES TO BOLINBROKE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What pleasing phrensy steals away my source? Last Line: Villete's soft voice and st john's silver lyre. Subject(s): St. John, Henry (1678-1751); Viscount Bolingbroke LINES TO KING GEORGE II, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O all-accomplish'd caesar! On thy shelf Last Line: And there triumphant sing thy soverain's praise. Subject(s): George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760) LINES TO LORD BATHURST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wood? Quoth lewis; and with that Last Line: An honest man, because not hang'd. Subject(s): Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl (1684-1775); Lewis, Erasmus (1670-1754); Statesmen LINES WRITTEN IN EVELYN'S BOOK ON COINS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tom wood of chiswick, deep divine LOOKING-GLASS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With scornful mien, and various toss of air MACER: A CHARACTER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When simple macer, now of high renown Last Line: To bawd for others, and go shares with punk. Subject(s): Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749) MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome, to thy native place! Last Line: Endu'd with all the virtues of a horse. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) MESSIAH; A SACRED ECLOGUE IN IMITATION OF VIRGIL'S POLLIO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye nymphs of solyma! Begin the song Last Line: Thy realm for ever lasts, thy own messiah reigns! Subject(s): Jesus Christ; Religion; Theology MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 1. TO RICHARD TEMPLE, VISCOUNT COBHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, you despise the man to books confin'd Last Line: Oh, save my country, heav'n!' shall be your last. Variant Title(s): Of Knowledge And Character Of Men Subject(s): Brydges, James. 1st Duke Of Chandros; Lane, James. 2d Viscount Lanesborough; Temple, Richard. 1st Viscount Cobham; Wharton, Philip, Duke Of (1698-1731); Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 2. TO A LADY: OF THE CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing so true as what you once let fall Last Line: To you gave sense, good humour, and a poet. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To A Lady: Of The Characters Of Women;epistle To A Lady Subject(s): Beauty; Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Character; Human Behavior; Inconsistency; Poetry & Poets; Women; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 3. TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall decide, when doctors disagree Last Line: And sad sir balaam curses god and dies. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To Allen Lord Bathurst: Of The Use Of Riches Subject(s): Bathurst, Allen, 1st Earl (1684-1775); Chartres, Francis (1675-1732); Colepepper, Sir William (1668-1740); Coningsby, Thomas, Lord (1656-1729); Crime & Criminals; Cutler, Sir John (1608-1693); Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford; Heathcote, Sir Gilbert (16 MORAL ESSAYS: EPISTLE 4. TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL BURLINGTON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis strange, the miser should his cares employ Last Line: These are imperial works, and worthy kings. Variant Title(s): An Epistle To Richard Boyle: Of The Use Of Riches Subject(s): Boyle, Richard. 3d Earl Of Burlington; Gardens & Gardening; Hearne, Thomas (1678-1735); Herbert, Thomas. 8th Earl Of Pembroke; Jones, Inigo (1573-1652); Le Notre, Andre (1613-1700); Mead, Richard (1673-1754); Sloane, Sir Hans (1660-1753); Vitruvius Polli MR. M. S-E, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What makes you write at this odd rate? MR. POPE, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When alexander pope strolled in the city Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) MR. POPE, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When alexander pope strolled in the city Last Line: One cannot say: around a crooked tree %a moral clims whose name should be a wreath Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) NATURE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To plant, to build Subject(s): Holidays; Trees OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse, 'tis enough: at length thy labour ends Last Line: And I and malice from this hour are friends. Subject(s): Sheffield, John (1648-1721); Buckingham & Normandy, 1st Duke Of; Mulgrave, 3d Earl Of ODE ON SOLITUDE (FINAL PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, whose wish and care Last Line: Tell where I lie. Variant Title(s): The Contented Man;the Quiet Life;ode To Solitude Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude; Loneliness ODE ON SOLITUDE (FIRST PRINTED VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How happy he, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE ON SOLITUDE (MANUSCRIPT VERSION), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free from care Last Line: Steal from the world, and not a stone %tell where I lie Subject(s): Contentment; Home; Nature; Solitude ODE [FOR MUSIC] ON ST. CECILIA'S DAY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Descend ye nine! Descend and sing Last Line: Hers lift the soul to heav'n. Subject(s): Cecilia, Saint (3d Century); Music & Musicians; Saints ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know the thing that's most uncommon / (envy be silent and attend!) Last Line: The woman 's deaf, and does not hear! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Envy; Modesty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens ON A LADY WHO P-SSED AT THE TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While maudlin whigs deplored their cato's fate Last Line: For that road leads directly to the heart. Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ON A PICTURE OF QUEEN CAROLINE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, flattering bishop! Lying dean ON BEAUFORT HOUSE GATE AT CHISWICK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was brought from chelsea last year ON CERTAIN LADIES, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When other fair ones to the shades go down ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who shalt stop, where thames' translucent wave Last Line: Who dare to love their country, and be poor. Subject(s): Home; Twickenham, England ON LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU'S PORTRAIT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The play full smiles around the dimpled mouth Last Line: And the whole princess in my work should shine. Subject(s): Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) ON LYING IN THE EARL OF ROCHESTER'S BED AT ATTERBURY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With no poetick ardors fir'd Last Line: When freedom is more dear than life. Subject(s): Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ON MRS. TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA-SINGER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So bright is thy beauty, so charming thy song ON RECEIVING FROM LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY A STANDISH AND 2 PENS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I beheld th' athenian queen Last Line: Of those that sing of these poor eyes.' Subject(s): Inkstands; Stanley, Lady Frances (1706-1778) ON SEEING THE LADIES AT CRUX-EASTON WALK IN THE WOODS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Authors the world and their dull brains have traced Last Line: Here, here's the place, where these bright angels walk. ON SILENCE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence! Coeval with eternity Last Line: All rest in peace at last, and sleep eternally. Subject(s): Silence; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ON THE BENEFACTIONS IN THE LATE FROST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, 'tis the time! I cry'd, impose the chain! Last Line: To take the only way to be forgiven. Variant Title(s): Epigram Explained By Carruthers To Refer To The Large Sums Subject(s): Charity; Forgiveness; Hope; Sin; Philanthropy; Clemency; Optimism ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pallas grew vapourish once, and odd Last Line: Between john overton and you. ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED FORTY; A POEM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wretched b--, jealous now of all Last Line: And one man's honesty redeem the land. Subject(s): Great Britain; Politics & Government PARAPHRASE ON THOMAS A KEMPIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Speak, gracious lord, oh, speak: thy servant hears Last Line: Thy greater glory, and my greater good! Subject(s): Thomas A Kempis (1379-1471) POODLE, by DAVID CHAPMAN BERRY Poem Source First Line: If it's a downpour, alexander pope Last Line: Dogs marking their art think they're poodles Subject(s): Divorce PRESENTATION VERSES TO NATHANIEL PIGOTT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muse this one verse to learn'd pigot addresses Last Line: Once in danger of death, once in danger of law. Subject(s): Pigott, Nathaniel (1661-1737) PROLOGUE DESIGNED FOR MR. D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grown old in rhyme, 'twere barbarous to discard Last Line: Nor force him to be damn'd, to get his living. Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723); Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE TO MR. ADDISON'S TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wake the soul by tender strokes of art Last Line: As cato's self had not disdain'd to hear. Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Politics & Government PROLOGUE TO SOPHONISBA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When learning, after the long gothic night Last Line: Thy silent whisper is the sacred test.] Subject(s): Authors And Authorship PROLOGUE TO THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Authors are judg'd by strange capricious rules Last Line: Let him that takes it, wear it as his own. Subject(s): Plays & Playwrights PROLOGUE, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MR. DENNIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when that hero, who in each campaign Last Line: And be the critick's, briton's, old-man's friend. Subject(s): Dennis, John (1657-1734); Plays & Playwrights PRUDERY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is prudery? 'tis a beldam Last Line: That rails at dear lepel and you. Variant Title(s): Answer To The Following Question Of Mrs. Howe Subject(s): Prudishness PSALM: 91, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who beneath thy shelt'ring wing resides Last Line: To him reveal my joys, and open all my skies. QUESTION BY ANONYMOUS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell, if you can, which did the worse RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Last Line: Some fold the sleeve, whilest others plait the gown; %and betty's praised for labours not her own Subject(s): Crime And Criminals; Rape RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain Last Line: With beating hearts the dire event they wait, %anxious and trembling for the birth of fate Subject(s): Love; Omens; Rape RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 3, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close by those meads, for ever crown'd with flowers Last Line: What wonder then, fair nymph! Thy hairs should feel, %the conquering force of unresisted steel? Variant Title(s): The Age Of Queen Ann RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 4, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppressed Last Line: Hairs less in sight, or any hairs but these RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 5, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said: the pitying audience melt in tears Last Line: And 'midst the stars inscribe belinda's name SANDY'S GHOST; OR ... BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye lords and commons, men of wit Last Line: Quoth sandys: to waste-paper. Subject(s): Dunton, John (1659-1733); Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Sandys, George (1578-1644); Stanyan, Temple (d. 1752); Translating & Interpreting SONNET WRITTEN UPON OCCASION OF THE PLAGUE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair mirrour of foul times! Whose fragile sheene Last Line: He sent him war, or plague, or famine sore. Subject(s): Plague SPRING. THE FIRST PASTORAL, OR DAMON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First in these fields I try the sylvan strains Last Line: And from the pleiads fruitful show'rs descend. Subject(s): Spring STINGY KIDS, by DENNIS SILK Poem Source First Line: Argument. A cartographer does his variations on an antique Last Line: The book of joshua. Alexander pope provides the coordinates %to pinpoint 'the moonlight prophet', ra SUMMER. THE SECOND PASTORAL, OR ALEXIS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd's boy (he seeks no better name) Last Line: By night he scorches, as he burns by day. Subject(s): Garth, Sir Samuel (1661-1719); Summer SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sylvia my heart in wond'rous wise alarm'd Last Line: Is still a sad good christian at her heart. Subject(s): Women THE ALLEY. AN IMITATION OF SPENSER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ev'ry town, where thamis rolls his tide Last Line: Vales, spires, meandring streams, and windsor's tow'ry pride. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) THE BALANCE OF EUROPE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now europe's balanc'd, neither side prevails Last Line: For nothing's left in either of the scales. Subject(s): Europe THE CAPON'S TALE TO A LADY WHO FATHERED HER LAMPOONS ..., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In yorkshire dwelt a sober yeoman Last Line: Nor like your capons, serve your cocks. Subject(s): Chickens THE CHALLENGE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To one fair lady out of court Last Line: With a fa. Variant Title(s): The Court Ballad Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Townshend, Charles, 2d Viscount; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens THE CRITICAL SPECIMEN: 1. A SIMILE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So on maeotis' marsh (where reeds and rushes) Last Line: And swells his bloated corps to largest size. Subject(s): Metaphor; Similes THE CRITICAL SPECIMEN: 2. A RHAPSODY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly pegasaean steed, thy rider bear Last Line: And to its ancient mirth the comic sock return. THE DISCOVERY, OR THE SQUIRE TURNED FERRET; BALLAD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most true it is, I dare to say Last Line: He still might shew his own. Subject(s): Animals; Rabbits; Hares THE DUNCIAD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty mother, and her son, who brings Last Line: And universal darkness buries all. THE DUNCIAD VARIORUM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Books and the man I sing, the first who brings Last Line: And thro' the ivory gate the vision flies. THE FOOL AND THE POET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I admit your general rule Last Line: That every fool is not a poet. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets THE FOURTH SATIRE OF DR. JOHN DONNE, VERSIFYED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, if it be time to quit the stage Last Line: In time to come, may pass for holy writ. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets THE HAPPY LIFE OF A COUNTRY PARSON, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Parson, these things in thy possessing Last Line: And shake his head at doctor swift. Variant Title(s): Dr. Swift Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as glumdalclitch miss'd her pleasing care Last Line: And europe taste thy sorrows in a dish. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) THE MODERN HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Behold the mansion reared by daedal jack Last Line: The rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that jack built Variant Title(s): The Domicile Of John (wr. Att. To Alexander Pope) THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Last Line: And mid'st the stars inscribe belinda's name! Subject(s): Hair; Mothers THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What dire offence from amorous causes springs Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Rape THE RAPE OF THE LOCK: CANTO 2, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not with more glories, in th' ethereal plain Last Line: Anxious, and trembling for the birth of fate Subject(s): Love; Omens; Rape THE SECOND SATIRE OF DR. JOHN DONNE, VERSIFYED, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes; thank my stars! As early as I knew Last Line: Within the reach of treason, or the law. Subject(s): Donne, John (1572-1631); Poetry & Poets THE SIX MAIDENS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tower there is, where six maidens do dwell Last Line: Prepard for the devil and his angells also? Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers THE TEMPLE OF FAME, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that soft season, when descending show'rs Last Line: Oh grant an honest fame, or grant me none! THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gentle philips will I ever sing Last Line: And from all wits that have a knack gad save ye. Subject(s): Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Carey, Walter (1686-1757); Philips, Ambrose (1674-1749) THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father of all! In every age Last Line: All nature incense rise! Subject(s): God; Prayer; Religion; Theology THE WORDS OF THE KING OF BROBDINGNAG, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In miniature see nature's power appear Last Line: Humility's the virtue of the great. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO A BLOCKHEAD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come Last Line: Knock as you please, there's no body at home. Variant Title(s): Epigram Subject(s): Ignorance; Dullness; Stupdity TO A LADY WITH THE TEMPLE OF FAME, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's fame with men, by custom of the nation Last Line: Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other. Subject(s): Fame; Reputation TO BELINDA ON THE RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleas'd in these lines, belinda, you may view Last Line: To have the rape recorded by his muse. Subject(s): Hair; Jervas, Charles (1675-1739); Paintings And Painters; Poetry & Poets TO EUSTACE BUDGELL, ESQ. ON HIS TRANSLATION ... THEOPHRASTUS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis rumoured, budgell on a time Last Line: That thou hast done, with life and spirit. Subject(s): Boyer, Abel (1667-1729); Budgell, Eustace (1686-1737); Gildon, Charles (1665-1724); Translating & Interpreting TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In beauty, or wit TO LORD HERVEY AND LADY MARY WORTLEY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I but call a flagrant whore unsound Last Line: And sweet adonis -- you have lost a tooth. Subject(s): Hervey, John. Baron Hervey Of Ickworth; Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley (1689-1762) TO MR. ADDISON, OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See the wild waste of all-devouring years! Last Line: And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the muse he lov'd.' Subject(s): Numismatics; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical TO MR. GAY, WHO WROTE HIM A CONGRATULATORY LETTER ON FINISHING HOUSE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text 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) TO MR. JOHN MOORE, AUTHOR OF THE CELEBRATED WORM-POWDER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much, egregious moore, are we Last Line: Who maggots were before. Variant Title(s): Worms Subject(s): Advertising; Worms TO MR. LEMUEL GULLIVER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, we wretches of the houyhnhnm band Last Line: Houyhnhnm. Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO MR. THOMAS SOUTHERNE, ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 1742, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Resigned to live, prepared to die Last Line: And scorn a rascal and a coach. Subject(s): Birthdays; Southerne, Thomas (1660-1746); Southern, Thomas TO MRS. MARTHA BLOUNT (ON HER BIRTHDAY, 1723), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O be thou blest with all that heaven can send Last Line: And wake to raptures in a life to come. Subject(s): Blount, Martha (patty) (1690-1763); Love TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In amaze / lost I gaze Last Line: Lofty poet, touch the sky. Variant Title(s): Ode To Quinbus Flestrin Subject(s): Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TO SIR GODFREY KNELLER, ON HIS PAINTING FOR ME THE STATUES.., by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What god, what genius, did the pencil move Last Line: And strong as hercules. Variant Title(s): On Drawings Of The Statues Of Apollo, Venus, And Hercules Subject(s): Friendship; Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1649-1723); Kniller, Gottfried TO THE AUTHOR OF A POEM ENTITLED SUCCESSION, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Begone, ye critics, and restrain your spite Last Line: Since 'tis enough we find it so in you. Subject(s): Settle, Elkanah (1648-1724) TO THE EARL OF BURLINGTON ASKING WHO WRIT LIBELS AGAINST HIM, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You wonder who this thing has writ Last Line: Who can it be but fibster h--y. Subject(s): Hervey, John. Baron Hervey Of Ickworth TO THE RIGHT HON. THE EARL OF OXFORD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wesley, if wesley 'tis they mean Last Line: The lord of oxford knows. Subject(s): Harley, Edward. 2d Earl Of Oxford TREATMENT FOR OLD JADES AND JANES, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis best sometimes your censure torestrain TWO OR THREE; OR A RECEIPT TO MAKE A CUCKOLD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two or three visits, and two or three bows Last Line: Can never fail cuckolding two or three spouses. Subject(s): Cuckolds UMBRA, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close to the best known author umbra sits Last Line: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets UPON A GIRL OF SEVEN YEARS OLD, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wit's queen, (if what the poets sing be true) Last Line: How pallas talk'd when she was seven years old. Subject(s): Children; Childhood UPON THE DUKE OF MARBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, sir, here's the grand approach VARIATION ON A THEME BY ALEXANDER POPE, by SACHEVERELL SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Now all the branches lift their arms VERSES ADDRESSED TO IMITATOR OF FIRST SATIRE OF HORACE, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In two large columns, on thy motley page Last Line: Wander like him, accursed through the land. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Variant Title(s): A Reply To Alexander Pope Subject(s): Hate; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Male-female Relations; Feminism VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (1), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho the dean has run from us in manner uncivil Last Line: We'll not be slow to visit dr. Swift. Subject(s): Arbuthnot, John (1667-1735); Gay, John (1685-1732); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Parnell, Thomas (1679-1718); Physicians; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Writing & Writers; Mortimer, Earl Of; Doctors VERSES IN THE SCRIBLERIAN MANNER (2), by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One that should be a saint Last Line: Pray grant us admittance, and shut out miles davies. Subject(s): Davies, Miles (1662-1719); Harley, Robert. 1st Earl Of Oxford; Tower Of London; Mortimer, Earl Of VERSES OCCASIONED .. MR. D'URFY'S NAME IN TITLE OF HIS PLAY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jove call'd before him t'other day Last Line: To the great name of tom durfy. Subject(s): D'urfey, Thomas (1653-1723) VERSES TO BE PLACED UNDER THE PICTURE OF ENGLAND'S ARCH-POET, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See who ne'er was or will be half-read! Last Line: But send him, honest job, thy wife. Subject(s): Blackmore, Sir Richard (1654-1729); Physicians; Doctors VERSES TO BE PREFIXED BEFORE BERNARD LINTOT'S NEW MISCELLANY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some colinaeus praise, some bleau Last Line: For some folks read, but all folks sh --. Subject(s): Bleau, Willem Janszoon (1571-1638); Books; Elzevier, Louis (1540-1617); Manutius, Aldus (1450-1515); Plantin, Christophe (1514-1589); Printing And Printers; Reading; Manuzio, Aldo; Mannucci, Aldo VERSES TO MR. C, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Few words are best; I wish you well Last Line: Want nothing else, except your wife. Subject(s): Cleland, William (1673-1741) VERSES TO MRS. JUDITH COWPER, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' sprightly sappho force our love and praise Last Line: And, un-observed, the glaring sun declines. WALLER. OF A FAN OF THE AUTHOR'S DESIGN, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, gentle air! Th' aeolian shepherd said Last Line: And pities procris, while her lover dies. Subject(s): Waller, Edmund (1606-1687) WINDSOR FOREST, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy forests, windsor! And thy green retreats Last Line: First in these fields I sung the sylvan strains. Subject(s): Cowley, Abraham (1618-1667); Denham, Sir John (1615-1669); Freedom; Great Britain - History; Howard, Henry, Earl Of Surrey (1517-47); Landscape; Windsor Forest, England; Liberty; English History WINTER. THE FOURTH PASTORAL, OR DAPHNE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis, the musick of that murm'ring spring Last Line: Daphne farewell, and all the world adieu! Subject(s): Winter WISER TODAY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man shold never be ashamed WROTE IN A VOLUME OF EVELYN ON COINS, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: T-m w--d of ch-sw-c, deep divine Last Line: That churchman e'er gave coin to lay. Subject(s): Evelyn, John (1620-1706); Kent, William (1686-1748); Numismatics; Wood, Thomas. Vicar Of Chiswick; Coins, Commemorative; Medals, Historical |
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