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
music warrior fire
By music minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low. . . . . Warriors she fires with animated sounds. Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
nature tree robes
A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
fighting life-is form
For forms of faith let graceless zealots fight; his can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
eye yellow spy
All seems infected that th' infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
hair stones grapes
A fly, a grape-stone, or a hair can kill.
feelings kind wondrous
A fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind.
past politics lasts
Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.
politics states interest
Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.
expression poetry dresses
Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.
vices sometimes virtue
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed.
numbers lisp
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
coins dear grows
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
song children
What will a child learn sooner than a song?
lying good-friend degrees
If it be the chief point of friendship to comply with a friends motions and inclinations, he possesses this in a eminent degree; he lies down when I sit, and walks when I walk, which is more than many good friends can pretend to do.