Alexander Pope's Poetry, by popularity

• On His Grotto at Twickenham

  Thou who shalt stop, where Thames' translucent wave
  Shines a broad Mirror thro' the shadowy Cave;

  14 lines
• On Seeing the Ladies Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto.

  Authors the world and their dull brains have traced
  To fix the ground where Paradise was placed;

  4 lines
• The Basset-Table : An Eclogue

  The Basset-Table spread, the Tallier come;
  Why stays Smilinda in the Dressing-Room?

  131 lines
• On the Countess of Burlington Cutting Paper

  Pallas grew vapourish once, and odd,
  She would not do the least right thing,

  20 lines
• On a Fan of the Author's Design

  Come gentle Air! th' AEolian shepherd said,
  While Procris panted in the secret shade:

  14 lines
• On Certain Ladies

  When other fair ones to the shades go down,
  Still Chloe, Flavin, Delia, stay in town:

  4 lines
• The Three Gentle Shepherds

  Of gentle Philips will I ever sing,
  With gentle Philips shall the valleys ring.

  10 lines
• Prayer of St. Francis Xavier

  Thou art my God, sole object of my love;
  Not for the hope of endless joys above;

  16 lines
• Verses Left by Mr. Pope

  With no poetic ardour fir'd
  I press the bed where Wilmot lay;

  12 lines
• Translation of a Prayer of Brutus

  Goddess of woods, tremendous in the chase,
  To mountain wolves and all the savage race,

  8 lines
• To Mr. Thomas Southern, on his Birth-Day

  Resign'd to live, prepar'd to die,
  With not one sin, but poetry,

  20 lines
• To Mrs. M. B. On Her Birthday

  Oh be thou blest with all that Heav'n can send,
  Long Health, long Youth, long Pleasure, and a Friend:

  19 lines, 1 comment
• The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney

  With scornful mien, and various toss of air,
  Fantastic vain, and insolently fair,

  14 lines
• Sandys Ghost ; A Proper Ballad on the New Ovid's Metamorphosis

  Ye Lords and Commons, Men of Wit,
  And Pleasure about Town;

  76 lines
• Epistle To Mrs Teresa Blount.[On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation]

  As some fond virgin, whom her mother's care
  Drags from the town to wholesome country air,

  53 lines
• To Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

  I.
  In beauty, or wit,

  35 lines
• An Essay on Man: Epistle II

        Know then thyself, presume not God to scan;
  The proper study of mankind is man.

  332 lines
• To the Author of a Poem Entitled Succession

  Begone, ye Critics, and restrain your spite,
  Codrus writes on, and will for ever write,

  21 lines
• Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid's Metamorphoses, book 14 [v. 623-771]

  The fair Pomona flourish'd in his reign;
  Of all the Virgins of the sylvan train,

  123 lines
• The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue

  Ye nymphs of Solyma! begin the song,
  To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong.

  107 lines
• Solitude

  How happy he, who free from care
  The rage of courts, and noise of towns;

  33 lines
• Sappho to Phaon (Ovid Heroid XV)

  Say, lovely youth, that dost my heart command,
  Can Phaon's eyes forget his Sappho's hand?

  257 lines
• The Dunciad: Book II.

  High on a gorgeous seat, that far out-shone
  Henley's gilt tub, or Flecknoe's Irish throne,

  428 lines
• Phyrne

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

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

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

  24 lines
• The Dunciad: Book III.

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

  340 lines
• Windsor Forest

  Thy forests, Windsor! and thy green retreats,
  At once the Monarch's and the Muse's seats,

  432 lines
• The Fable of Dryope - Ovid's Metamorphoses Book 9, [v. 324-393]

  She said, and for her lost Calanthis sighs,
  When the fair Consort of her son replies.

  102 lines
• The Rape of the Lock: Canto 5

  She said: the pitying audience melt in tears,
      But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears.

  169 lines
• Occasioned By Some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham

  Muse, 'tis enough: at length thy labour ends,
  And thou shalt live, for Buckingham commends.

  8 lines

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