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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO LORD HERVEY AND LADY MARY WORTLEY, by ALEXANDER POPE 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) | |||
When I but call a flagrant Whore unsound, Or have a Pimp or Flaterer in the Wind, Sapho enrag'd crys out your Back is round, Adonis screams -- Ah! Foe to all Mankind! Thanks, dirty Pair! you teach me what to say, When you attack my Morals, Sense, or Truth, I answer thus -- poor Sapho you grow grey, And sweet Adonis -- you have lost a Tooth. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ON READING LADY MARY MONTAGUE AND MRS. ROWE'S LETTERS by JANET LITTLE IMITATION OF TIBULLUS by ALEXANDER POPE ON LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU'S PORTRAIT 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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