Alexander Pope's Poetry, by first line

• Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

  What beck'ning ghost, along the moon-light shade
  Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?

  88 lines, 1 comment
• The Rape of the Lock: Canto 1

  Nolueram, Belinda, tuos violare capillos;
  Sedjuvat, hoc precibus me tribuisse tuis.

  162 lines, 1 comment
• The Rape of the Lock: Canto 2

  Not with more glories, in th' etherial plain,
  The sun&nbs

  147 lines
• The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4

  But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd,
  And secret passions labour'd in her breast.

  189 lines
• The Iliad: Book VI (excerpt)

  He said, and pass'd with sad presaging heart
  To seek his spouse, his soul's far dearer part;

  176 lines, 1 comment
• The Dunciad: Book IV

  Yet, yet a moment, one dim ray of light
  Indulge, dread Chaos, and eternal Night!

  656 lines, 3 comments
• The Dunciad: Book I.

  The Mighty Mother, and her son who brings
  The Smithfield muses to the ear of kings,

  330 lines
• Imitations of Horace: The First Epistle of the Second Book

  While you, great patron of mankind, sustain
  The balanc'd world, and open all the main;

  421 lines
• In Imitation of Cowley : The Garden

  Fain would my Muse the flow'ry Treasures sing,
  And humble glories of the youthful Spring;

  30 lines
• Weeping

  While Celia's Tears make sorrow bright,
  Proud Grief sits swelling in her eyes;

  18 lines
• In Imitation of E. of Rochester : On Silence

  I.
  Silence! coeval with Eternity;

  56 lines
• In Imitation of E. of Dorset : Artemisia

  Tho' Artemisia talks, by fits,
  Of councils, classics, fathers, wits;

  24 lines
• Phyrne

  Phryne had talents for mankind,
  Open she was, and unconfin'd,

  24 lines
• In Imitation of Dr. Swift : The Happy Life of a Country Parson

  Parson, these things in thy possessing
  Are better than the Bishop's blessing.

  24 lines
• Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

  Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said,
  Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.

  428 lines, 4 comments
• Epistles to Several Persons: Epistle IV, To Richard Boyle,

  'Tis strange, the miser should his cares employ
  To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy:

  211 lines, 1 comment
• The Riddle of the World

  Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
  The proper study of Mankind is Man.

  17 lines
• Two Or Three: A Recipe To Make A Cuckold

  Two or three visits, and two or three bows,
  Two or three civil things, two or three vows,

  7 lines
• You Know Where You Did Despise

  You know where you did despise
  (Tother day) my little Eyes,

  10 lines
• Epigram Engraved on the Collar of a Dog Which I Gave to His Royal Highness

  I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
  Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

  2 lines, 3 comments
• On a Certain Lady at Court

  I know a thing that's most uncommon;
  (Envy, be silent and attend!)

  12 lines
• The Dying Christian to His Soul

  Vital spark of heav’nly flame!
  Quit, O quit this mortal frame:

  18 lines
• Impromptu, to Lady Winchelsea

  In vain you boast Poetic Names of yore,
  And cite those Sapho's we admire no more:

  12 lines, 1 comment
• Argus

  When wise Ulysses, from his native coast
  Long kept by wars, and long by tempests toss'd,

  18 lines, 1 comment
• Sound and Sense

  True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
  As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

  14 lines, 1 comment
• Epistle II: To a Lady (Of the Characters of Women )

  Nothing so true as what you once let fall,
  "Most Women have no Characters at all."

  292 lines, 1 comment
• The Dunciad: Book III.

  But in her Temple's last recess inclos'd,
  On Dulness' lap th' Anointed head repos'd.

  340 lines
• Couplets on Wit

  I
  But our Great Turks in wit must reign alone

  21 lines, 1 comment
• Lines on Curll

  So when Curll's Stomach the strong Drench o'ercame,
  (Infus'd in Vengenance of insulted Fame)

  7 lines, 1 comment
• Ode on Solitude

  Happy the man, whose wish and care
  A few paternal acres bound,

  21 lines, 3 comments

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