The Rape of the Lock (Alexander Pope Poems)
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
But anxious cares the pensive nymph oppress'd, And secret passions labour'd in her breast. Not youthful kings in battle seiz'd ...
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
Content, the false World's best disguise, The search and faction of the Wise, Is so abstruse and hid in night, ...
Releas'd from the noise of the butcher and baker Who, my old friends be thanked, did seldom forsake her, And ...
AS doctors give physic by way of prevention, Mat, alive and in health, of his tombstone took care; For delays ...
Of all who hail thy presence as the morning- Of all to whom thine absence is the night- The blotting ...
I am a miner. The light burns blue. Waxy stalactites Drip and thicken, tears The earthen womb Exudes from its ...
She's passing fair; but so demure is she, So quiet is her gown, so smooth her hair, That few there ...
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Someone sailed the ocean blue. Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain For a business trip ...
DEIGN, Prince, my tribute to receive, This lyric offering to your name, Who round your jewelled scepter bind The lilies ...
"Am I, at bottom, that fervent little Spanish Catholic child who chastised herself for loving toys, who forbade herself the ...
All hail to Mr Murphy, he is a hero brave, That has crossed the mighty Atlantic wave, For what purpose ...
Oh! God, I thank Thee for restoring King Edward the Seventh's health again, And let all his subjects throughout the ...
Alas! Lord and Lady Dalhousie are dead, and buried at last, Which causes many people to feel a little downcast; ...
Ye mountains and glens of Old Ireland, I've returned home to ye again; During my absence from ye My heart ...
Success to James Scrymgeour, He's a very good man, And to gainsay it, There's few people can; Because he makes ...
They say, that Pity in Love's service dwells, A porter at the rosy temple's gate. I missed him going: but ...
I am not of those miserable males Who sniff at vice and, daring not to snap, Do therefore hope for ...
I am not of those miserable males Who sniff at vice and, daring not to snap, Do therefore hope for ...
He came at night to each of us asleep And trained us in the virtues we most lacked. Me he ...
I I have loved England, dearly and deeply, Since that first morning, shining and pure, The white cliffs of Dover ...
I who kept the greenhouse, Lover of trees and flowers, Oft in life saw this umbrageous elm, Measuring its generous ...
I've been in love for long With what I cannot tell And will contrive a song For the intangible That ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
ENOUGH; and leave the rest to Fame! 'Tis to commend her, but to name. Courtship which, living, she declined, When ...
A Poem upon the Death of His Late Highness the Lord Protector That Providence which had so long the care ...
song Fauc1 First. Chorus. Th' Astrologers own Eyes are set, And even Wolves the Sheep forget; Only ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
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