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Born in May 21, 1688 / Died in May 30, 1744 / United Kingdom / English

Poems by Alexander Pope

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The Dunciad: Book II.

... Heaven's twinkling sparks draw light, and point their horns ...

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The Messiah : A Sacred Eclogue

... See! thy bright altars throng'd with prostrate kings, ...

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The Looking-Glass. : on Mrs. Pulteney

... And this conjunction swells at least her mind: ...

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

... Shake the light blossoms from their blasted boughs!" ...

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On Certain Ladies

... Those ghosts of beauty wandering here reside, ...

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An Essay on Man: Epistle II

... and there, At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where: ...

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Weeping

... That Heav'n, the threaten'd World to spare, ...

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The Dunciad: Book IV

... Till drown'd was sense, and shame, and right, and wrong- ...

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Chorus of Athenians

... Strophe I. Ye shades, where sacred truth is sought ...

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In Imitation of Chaucer

... " And stoppen, and lough, and callen out, - ...

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Farewell to London

... My friends, by turns, my friends confound, ...

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Epistle to Miss Blount, On Her Leaving the Town, After the Coronation

...  Some Squire, perhaps, you take a delight to rack ...

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

... Here, here's the place where these bright angels walk ...

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Impromptu

... s throne, Fights and subdues in quarrels not her own ...

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An Essay on Criticism: Part 1

... [If you have come to know any precept more correct than these, share it with me, brilliant one ...