The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope (Vol. 1&2): Complete Editione-artnow presents to you this meticulously edited and formatter collection: Contents: Volume 1: Pastorals Mesiah An Essay on Criticism The Rape of the Lock Windsor-Forest Ode on Cecilia's Day Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio Ode on Solitude The Dying Christian to His Soul Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady Prologue to Mr Addison's Tragedy of Cato Imitations of English Poets The Temple of Fame Eloisa to Abelard Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford Epistle to James Craggs Epistle to Mr Jervas Epistle to Miss Blount Epistle to Mrs Teresa Blount Epitaphs An Essay on Man Epistle to Dr Akbuthnot Satires and Epistles of Horace Imitated The Satires of Dr John Versified Epilogue to the Satires Volume 2: Moral Essays Translations and Imitations: Sappho to Phaon The Fable of Dryope Vertumnus and Pomona The First Book of Statius's Thebais January and May The Wife of Bath Prologues and Epilogues Miscellanies: The Basset-Table Lines on receiving from the Right Hon. the Lady Frances Shirley a Standish and Two Pens Verbatim from Boileau Answer to the following Question of Mrs Howe Occasioned by some Verses of His Grace the Duke of Buckingham Macer: a Character Song, by a Person of Quality On a Certain Lady at Court On his Grotto at Twickenham Roxana, or the Drawing-Room To Lady Mary Wortley Montague Extemporaneous Lines on a Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montague Lines sung by Durastanti when she took leave of the English Stage Upon the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock Verses left by Mr Pope The Challenge The Three Gentle Shepherds Epigram, engraved on the Collar of a Dog The Translator The Looking-Glass A Farewell to London Sandys' Ghost Umbra Sylvia, a Fragment Impromptu to Lady Winchelsea Epigram Epigram on the Feuds about Handel and Bononcini On Mrs Tofts, a celebrated Opera Singer The Balance of Europe The Universal Prayer The Dunciad… |
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... gently from thy sacred spring, While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing; Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play, And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay. You that, too wise for pride, too good for power, Enjoy the glory to be ...
... gently from thy sacred spring, While on thy banks Sicilian Muses sing; Let vernal airs through trembling osiers play, And Albion's cliffs resound the rural lay. You that, too wise for pride, too good for power, Enjoy the glory to be ...
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... gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. DAPHNIS. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, She runs ...
... gentle Delia beckons from the plain, Then hid in shades, eludes her eager swain; But feigns a laugh, to see me search around, And by that laugh the willing fair is found. DAPHNIS. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green, She runs ...
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... gentle Thames his winding waters leads Through verdant forests, and through flowery meads. VER. 3, 4. Originally thus in the MS.— There to the winds he plain'd his hapless love, And Amaryllis fill'd the vocal grove. VER. 27–29— Oft in ...
... gentle Thames his winding waters leads Through verdant forests, and through flowery meads. VER. 3, 4. Originally thus in the MS.— There to the winds he plain'd his hapless love, And Amaryllis fill'd the vocal grove. VER. 27–29— Oft in ...
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... gentle gales, and bear my sighs away! To Delia's ear the tender notes convey. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores, And with deep murmurs fills the sounding shores, 20 Thus, far from Delia, to the winds I mourn, Alike unheard ...
... gentle gales, and bear my sighs away! To Delia's ear the tender notes convey. As some sad turtle his lost love deplores, And with deep murmurs fills the sounding shores, 20 Thus, far from Delia, to the winds I mourn, Alike unheard ...
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... gentle gales, and bear my sighs away! Cursed be the fields that cause my Delia's stay; Fade every blossom, wither every tree, Die every flower, and perish all but she. What have I said? Where'er my Delia flies, Let spring attend, and ...
... gentle gales, and bear my sighs away! Cursed be the fields that cause my Delia's stay; Fade every blossom, wither every tree, Die every flower, and perish all but she. What have I said? Where'er my Delia flies, Let spring attend, and ...
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