Eloisa to Abelard
In these deep solitudes and awful cells, Where heav’nly-pensive contemplation dwells, And ever-musing melancholy reigns; What means this tumult in […]
Author: Alexander Pope
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. In vain Thalestris […]
Lines on Curll
So when Curll’s Stomach the strong Drench o’ercame, (Infus’d in Vengenance of insulted Fame) Th’ Avenger sees, with a delighted […]
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, Two or […]
An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Epistle 1
To Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride […]
From an Essay on Man
Heav’n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib’d, their present state: From brutes what […]
The Rape of the Lock: Canto 4
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress’d, And secret passions labour’d in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz’d […]
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? ‘Tis she! but why that […]
The Rape of the Lock
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am’rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing This Verse […]
Ode on Solitude
Happy the man, whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his […]