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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: POPE, ALEXANDER (1688-1744) Matches Found: 45 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 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 PIPE OF TOBACCO (MR. POPE'S STYLE IMITATED), by ISAAC HAWKINS BROWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blest leaf! Whose aromatic gales dispense Last Line: And let me taste thee unexcised by kings. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Smoking; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes AESOP AT THE BEAR-GARDEN, SELECTION, by MR. ? PRESTON Poem Text First Line: In that soft season when each hedge and field Last Line: That we might safely sleep beneath a shade. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) 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) AN EPISTLE TO LADY BOWER [BOWYER], by MARY JONES Poem Text First Line: How much of paper's soiled! What floods of ink! Last Line: An honest heart is worth its weight in gold. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women Writers ANSWER TO POPE'S CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ANNE (HOWARD) IRWIN Poem Text First Line: By custom doomed to folly, sloth and ease Last Line: Than what they hear all day, or dream all night? Subject(s): Women; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ASSEMBLY, SELS., by RICHARD BARFORD Poem Source First Line: In every work regard the writer's end Last Line: What cares, what tumults from the slightest thing Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) CULTURAL EVOLUTION; AFTER POPE, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When from his cave, young mao in his youthful mind Last Line: Marx and confucius turned out much the same. Subject(s): China; Communism; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women; Women's Rights; Feminism DR. SWIFT TO MR. POPE [WHILE HE WAS WRITING THE DUNCIAD], by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Pope has the talent well to speak Last Line: Because he rang the bell Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) EPISTLE TO MR. POPE FROM ROME, 1730, by GEORGE LYTTELTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal bard! For whom each muse has wove Last Line: Approving time shall consecrate thy lays, %and join the patriot's to the poet's praise Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism 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) HOMER IN A NUTSHELL, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sing the rancour of a knight Last Line: The good old man chryses, his curate Subject(s): Addison, Joseph (1672-1719); Homer (10th Century B.c.); Poetry And Poets; Politics; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Translating And Interpreting HOW THE LAWYERS GOT A PATRON SAINT; A LEGEND OF BRETAGNE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lawyer of brittany, once on a time Last Line: Was touching the form of the devil! Subject(s): Clergy; Legends; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Religion; Saints; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Theology IMITATION OF POPE: A COMPLIMENT TO THE LADIES, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wondrous the gods, more wondrous are the men Last Line: But ah more wondrous still the charming fair Subject(s): Bible; Mythology; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) IN ANSWER TO MR. POPE, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disarmed with so genteel an air Last Line: By admonitions taught. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women INEBRIETY; A POEM, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mighty spirit, and its power, which stains Last Line: Tis virtue's pleasure, and can never die! Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) JOHNSON ON POPE; FROM THE LIVES OF THE POETS, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was protuberant behind, before Last Line: Composed itself; of folly he made beauty Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) JOHNSON ON POPE; FROM THE LIVES OF THE POETS, by DAVID FERRY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was protuberant behind, before Last Line: Composed itself; of folly he made beauty Subject(s): Johnson, Samuel (1709-1784); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) LINES TO POPE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heathen doth believe in christ Last Line: Nor minister of state Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR PARK, by CHARLES CHURCHILL Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When pope to satire gave its lawful way Last Line: The son of george, the image of nassau! Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) 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) MR. POPE'S WELCOME FROM GREECE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long hast thou, friend, been absent from thy soil Last Line: These honours, homer, had been just to thee. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ODES: BOOK 2: ODE 10. TO THOMAS EDWARDS, ON ... POPE'S WORKS, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Believe me, edwards, to restrain Last Line: To keep inviolate their fame. Subject(s): Edwards, Thomas (1699-1757); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Edwards, Thomas (1699-1757); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) ON HER OWN BIRTHDAY, AUGUST 26, 1723, by JUDITH (COWPER) MADAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This day beginning to a creature gave Last Line: That howe and pope vouchsafe to call her friend. Subject(s): Birthdays; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Self ON MR. POPE'S CHARACTERS OF WOMEN, by ANNE (HOWARD) INGRAM Poem Source First Line: By custom doomed to folly, sloth, and ease Last Line: And vie in fame with ancient greece and rome! Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As rochfoucault [or rochfoucauld] his maxims drew Last Line: "I wish it soon may have a better." Variant Title(s): Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rochefoucauld, Francois De La (1613-80); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Dead, The; Liberty ON THE DEATH OF MR. POPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "seal up the book, all vision's at an end" Last Line: And we may obly what is writ rehearse: / his works are the apocalypse of verse Subject(s): "pope, Alexander (1688-1744); ON THE EDITION OF MR. POPE'S WORKS WITH A COMMENTARY & NOTES, by THOMAS EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In evil hour did pope's declining age Last Line: Dragged to oblivion by the foundering weight. Subject(s): Hate; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) PARODY ON POPE, by SYDNEY SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why has not man a collar and a log? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Sidney Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) PLEA TO BOYS AND GIRLS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You learned lear's 'nonsense rhynes' by heart, not rote Last Line: All that I wrote in love, for love of art Subject(s): Lear, Edward (1812-1888); Poetry And Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) POPE ADDS THE MYSTERIES OF LIGHT, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: People pass me by in the street, abuzz like bees Last Line: In the sun between furrowed fingers and thumb Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Meditation; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) POPE AT TWICKENHAM, by WILLIAM CHARLES MARK KENT Poem Text First Line: Beyond a hundred years and more Last Line: Love's wreath -- a crown of thorns. Alternate Author Name(s): Kent, Charles Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) PROJECTS AND COMPANIES, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nation's wealth that overflows Last Line: That close his fourth epistle. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Thames (river); War REPLY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, I admit your general rule Subject(s): Poetry And Poets; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) SPOKEN EXTEMPORE ON THE DEATH OF MR. POPE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "vice now may lift aloft her speckled head," Last Line: And front the sun undaunted: pope is dead! Subject(s): "pope, Alexander (1688-1744); THE CAVE OF POPE, by ROBERT DODSLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dark oblivion in her sable cloak Last Line: Boasting a relic from the cave of pope. Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) THE MANUSCRIPT OF SAINT ALEXIUS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a child into the solemn hall Last Line: But still aglaia could not understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Bible; Catholic Church - Clergy; Manuscripts; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Saints; Catholic Priests THE TWA BULLS, by WILLIAM D. LATTO Poem Text First Line: The parlance ended, monk confounded Last Line: An honour to their fatherland. Subject(s): Louis Xiv, King Of France (1638-1715); Monks; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Religion; Theology THE WIDOWER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man, who free as air Last Line: To laugh -- or cry! Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Marriage; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Weddings; Husbands; Wives THIMBLE, SELS., by WILLIAM+(1) HAWKINS Poem Source First Line: What art devine the shining thimble found Last Line: And genial hymen blest their nuptial bed Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) TO THE RIGHT HON. ANN COUNTESS OF WINCHILSEA: .. RAPE OF THE LOCK, by ANNE FINCH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In vain you boast poetick dames of yore Last Line: But shines himself till they are seen no more Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Pope, Alexander (1688-1744) 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 |
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