Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope
Alexander Popewas an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the second-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth21 May 1688
art bravery grace
From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art.
life past time-management
For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e'en the past enjoy.
kissing white might
On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore, Which Jews might kiss and infidels adore.
strength growth disease
The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
lying sky bully
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
lying bleeding deceit
A naked lover bound and bleeding lies!
genius earth
Consult the Genius of the Place in all.
friendship dear-friend absent
Absent or dead, still let a friend be dear.
life eye men
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
life prayer children
Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.
husband mistress barren
Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.
husband answers accepting
She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting, sways, Yet has her humor most, when she obeys.
love passion men
In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.
love lost solitary
Now warm in love, now with'ring in my bloom Lost in a convent's solitary gloom!