Toggle navigation
Blacklight
Bookmarks (
0
)
History
Login
Search in
All Fields
Related People
Poem Title In Miscellany
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Blacklight
Toggle facets
Limit your search
Content type
Poem
802
Miscellany
335
Related People
Alexander Pope
[remove]
1,137
Not attributed
633
John Dryden
157
John Milton
128
James Thomson
112
John Gay
108
Thomas Gray
98
Edward Young
94
Matthew Prior
94
William Shakespeare
93
more
Related People
»
Poem Theme
Poetry / literature / writing
126
Death
87
Virtue / vice
86
Mythology
75
Women / the female character
66
Advice / moral precepts
61
Dunces
54
Nature
53
Ancient history
49
Wit
42
more
Poem Theme
»
Poem Genre / Form
Couplet
641
Extract / snippet from longer work
400
Imitation / translation / paraphrase
107
Epigram
88
Essay
60
Epic
51
Epistle
47
Satire
46
Epitaph
43
Philosophic poetry
39
more
Poem Genre / Form
»
Miscellany Genre
Collection including prose
79
Collection of literary verse
65
Collection aimed at children/young people
39
Collection of extracts/snippets
32
Collection of translations/imitations
30
Collection of religious verse
22
Collection of educational texts
17
Made-up miscellany
16
Subscription Miscellany
16
Collection of comic verse
15
more
Miscellany Genre
»
Year
Year range begin
–
Year range end
Current results range from
1709
to
1800
View distribution
Unknown
802
Search Constraints
Start Over
You searched for:
Related People
Alexander Pope
Remove constraint Related People: Alexander Pope
« Previous
|
101
-
200
of
1,137
|
Next »
Number of results to display per page
100 per page
10
per page
20
per page
50
per page
100
per page
View results as:
List
Gallery
Search Results
101.
But all our praises why should lords engross
First Line:
But all our praises why should lords engross
Last Line:
Will never mark the marble with his name
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
27023
102.
But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
First Line:
But Annius crafty seer with ebon wand
Last Line:
And Douglas lend his soft obstetric hand
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28163
103.
But errs not nature from this gracious end
First Line:
But errs not nature from this gracious end
Last Line:
And nature deviates how can man do less
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28216
104.
But fools the good alone unhappy call
First Line:
But fools the good alone unhappy call
Last Line:
Lent heaven a parent to the poor and me
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28357
105.
But he who found not whom his soul desired
First Line:
But he who found not whom his soul desired
Last Line:
The first in danger as the first in fame
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28437
106.
But you who seek to give and merit fame
First Line:
But you who seek to give and merit fame
Last Line:
And mark that point where sense and dulness meet
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30637
107.
But you who seek to give and merit fame
First Line:
But you who seek to give and merit fame
Last Line:
Would all but stoop to what they understand
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37113
108.
But let us on this memorable day
First Line:
But let us on this memorable day
Last Line:
A radiant belt that rich with purple glowed
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31576
109.
But most by numbers judge a poet's song
First Line:
But most by numbers judge a poet's song
Last Line:
And what Timotheus was is Dryden now
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37196
110.
But our great Turks in wit must reign alone
First Line:
But our great Turks in wit must reign alone
Last Line:
They praise no works but what are like their own
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35054
111.
But over the twilight groves and dusky caves
First Line:
But over the twilight groves and dusky caves
Last Line:
And breathes a browner horror on the woods
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30402
112.
But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed
First Line:
But sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed
Last Line:
Say at what part of nature will they stand
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28364
113.
But still this world so fitted for the knave
First Line:
But still this world so fitted for the knave
Last Line:
But first consider how those just agree
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28361
114.
But straight the direful pomp of slander sounds
First Line:
But straight the direful pomp of slander sounds
Last Line:
An easy entrance in ignoble minds
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30887
115.
But were there one whose fires
First Line:
But were there one whose fires
Last Line:
Who would not weep if Atticus were he
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31978
116.
But what are these to great Atossa's mind
First Line:
But what are these to great Atossa's mind
Last Line:
Or wanders heaven directed to the poor
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
19535
117.
But when by man's audacious labour won
First Line:
But when by man's audacious labour won
Last Line:
To Ward to Waters Chartres or the devil
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
22422
118.
But when the powers descending swelled the fight
First Line:
But when the powers descending swelled the fight
Last Line:
Abhorred by men and dreadful even to gods
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31609
119.
But when the torrent quenched the dreadful blaze
First Line:
But when the torrent quenched the dreadful blaze
Last Line:
And what extinguished theirs increased my flame
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
18187
120.
But where each science lifts its modern type
First Line:
But where each science lifts its modern type
Last Line:
In Toland's Tindal's and in Woolston's days
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2995
121.
Cease then not order imperfection name
First Line:
Cease then not order imperfection name
Last Line:
One truth is clear whatever is is right
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30144
122.
Come then my friend my genius come along
First Line:
Come then my friend my genius come along
Last Line:
To man's low passions or their glorious ends
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28597
123.
Come with thy looks thy words relieve my woe
First Line:
Come with thy looks thy words relieve my woe
Last Line:
Give all thou canst and let me dream the rest
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
1377
124.
Close to her husband Frances joined once more
First Line:
Close to her husband Frances joined once more
Last Line:
Will raise three bodies from this dust alone
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
2914
125.
Close to the best known author Umbra sits
First Line:
Close to the best known author Umbra sits
Last Line:
Know sense like charity begins at home
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
1973
126.
Close to the gates a spacious garden lies
First Line:
Close to the gates a spacious garden lies
Last Line:
The people one and one supplies the king
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
8416
127.
Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said
First Line:
Come gentle air the Aeolian shepherd said
Last Line:
And pities Procris while her lover dies
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7402
128.
Dear damned distracting town farewell
First Line:
Dear damned distracting town farewell
Last Line:
And so may starve with me
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
34928
129.
Cursed be the verse how well so ever it flow
First Line:
Cursed be the verse how well so ever it flow
Last Line:
Or from the soft eyed virgin steal a tear
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28947
130.
Cursed is the man and void of law and right
First Line:
Cursed is the man and void of law and right
Last Line:
To tear his country and his kind destroy
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31582
131.
Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains
First Line:
Count all the advantage prosperous vice attains
Last Line:
Tis but what virtue flies from and disdains
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
33766
132.
Critics I saw that others names efface
First Line:
Critics I saw that others names efface
Last Line:
Or disappeared and left the first behind
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
32718
133.
Daughter of great Rhexenor thus began
First Line:
Daughter of great Rhexenor thus began
Last Line:
And humbled in the ashes took his place
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31619
134.
Dear Mr Cromwell | May it please ye
First Line:
Dear Mr Cromwell | May it please ye
Last Line:
But which I cannot tell you truly
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
15574
135.
Delightful favourite of the tuneful nine
First Line:
Delightful favourite of the tuneful nine
Last Line:
The Stygian wave had covered all the godlike boy
Author:
Edward Cobden (Absolute)
DMI number:
3205
136.
Descend ye nine descend and sing
First Line:
Descend ye nine descend and sing
Last Line:
Hers lift the soul to heaven
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7393
137.
Descend ye nine descend and sing
First Line:
Descend ye nine descend and sing
Last Line:
Yet music and love were victorious
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
36375
138.
Did Celia's person and her mind agree
First Line:
Did Celia's person and her mind agree
Last Line:
Enriched the image and defaced the mind
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
12758
139.
Envy will merit as its shade persue
First Line:
Envy will merit as its shade persue
Last Line:
Reflect new glories and augment the day
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
1369
140.
Envy will merit as its shade pursue
First Line:
Envy will merit as its shade pursue
Last Line:
The opposing body's grossness not its own
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
29808
141.
Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend
First Line:
Did Milton's prose o Charles thy death defend
Last Line:
The murderous critic has avenged thy murder
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
3047
142.
Disarmed with so genteel an air
First Line:
Disarmed with so genteel an air
Last Line:
By admonitions taught
Author:
Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Absolute)
DMI number:
8250
143.
Discord dire sister of the slaughtering power
First Line:
Discord dire sister of the slaughtering power
Last Line:
The groan still deepens and the combat burns
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28979
144.
Enough o son of Peleus Troy has viewed
First Line:
Enough o son of Peleus Troy has viewed
Last Line:
Now hovers round and calls thee to thy death
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31573
145.
Dorset the grace of courts the muses pride
First Line:
Dorset the grace of courts the muses pride
Last Line:
And patriots still or poets deck the line
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
17790
146.
Dulness the safe opiate of the mind
First Line:
Dulness the safe opiate of the mind
Last Line:
Unfeared unhated undisturbed it lives
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28998
147.
Deep over his knee inseamed remained the scar
First Line:
Deep over his knee inseamed remained the scar
Last Line:
At length abrupt my son my king she cried
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31659
148.
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks
First Line:
Distrustful sense with modest caution speaks
Last Line:
Bursts out resistless with a thundering tide
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30882
149.
Far as a shepherd from some point on high
First Line:
Far as a shepherd from some point on high
Last Line:
At every leap the immortal coursers bound
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
12905
150.
Far as creation's ample range extends
First Line:
Far as creation's ample range extends
Last Line:
One truth is clear whatever is is right
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37174
151.
Far as creation's ample range extends
First Line:
Far as creation's ample range extends
Last Line:
The great directing mind of all ordains
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31035
152.
Far in a wild unknown to public view
First Line:
Far in a wild unknown to public view
Last Line:
And passed a life of piety and peace
Author:
Thomas Parnell (Absolute)
DMI number:
12340
153.
Fate rules us then to fate give way
First Line:
Fate rules us then to fate give way
Last Line:
What have you against this to say
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35384
154.
Father of all in every age
First Line:
Father of all in every age
Last Line:
All nature's incense rise
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
21298
155.
Father of all in every age
First Line:
Father of all in every age
Last Line:
Jehovah Jove or Lord
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28611
156.
Fatis agimur cedite fatis
First Line:
Fatis agimur cedite fatis
Last Line:
What have you against this to say
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
15570
157.
First follow nature and your judgement frame
First Line:
First follow nature and your judgement frame
Last Line:
Itself unseen but in the effects remains
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30639
158.
First in these fields I try the sylvan strains
First Line:
First in these fields I try the sylvan strains
Last Line:
And from the Pleiads fruitful showers descend
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7031
159.
Fixed at his post was each bold Ajax found
First Line:
Fixed at his post was each bold Ajax found
Last Line:
Resistless when he raged and when he stopped unmoved
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
37197
160.
Female innocence
First Line:
Female innocence
Last Line:
And public nuptials justify the bride
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31617
161.
Few words are best I wish you well
First Line:
Few words are best I wish you well
Last Line:
Want nothing else except your wife
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
33586
162.
Expression is the dress of thought and still
First Line:
Expression is the dress of thought and still
Last Line:
Appears most decent as more suitable
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
9493
163.
Fair chamber cease nor make you voice's prize
First Line:
Fair chamber cease nor make you voice's prize
Last Line:
This vocal wood had drawn the poet too
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
39591
164.
Fair charmer cease nor add your tuneful breath
First Line:
Fair charmer cease nor add your tuneful breath
Last Line:
This vocal wood had drawn the poet too
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
8239
165.
Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
First Line:
Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
Last Line:
The vocal wood had drawn the poet too
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7160
166.
Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
First Line:
Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
Last Line:
The vocal word had drawn the poet too
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
33530
167.
Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
First Line:
Fair charmer cease nor make your voice's prize
Last Line:
This vocal wood had drawn the poet too
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
6011
168.
Fair mirror of foul times whose fragile sheen
First Line:
Fair mirror of foul times whose fragile sheen
Last Line:
He sent him war or plague or famine sore
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30442
169.
Fair opening to some courts propitious shine
First Line:
Fair opening to some courts propitious shine
Last Line:
Or reaped in iron harvests of the field
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28246
170.
Fortune her gifts may variously dispose
First Line:
Fortune her gifts may variously dispose
Last Line:
But future views of better or of worse
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28353
171.
Fortune in men has some small difference made
First Line:
Fortune in men has some small difference made
Last Line:
I'll tell you friend a wise man and a fool
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
34237
172.
Fortune not much of humbling me can boast
First Line:
Fortune not much of humbling me can boast
Last Line:
Let us be fixed and our own masters still
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28030
173.
Fraternal rage the guilty Thebes alarms
First Line:
Fraternal rage the guilty Thebes alarms
Last Line:
Who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
7294
174.
Friend for your epitaphs I grieved
First Line:
Friend for your epitaphs I grieved
Last Line:
The other never read
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
36376
175.
Friend for your epitaphs I'm grieved
First Line:
Friend for your epitaphs I'm grieved
Last Line:
The other never read
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
32427
176.
Friend in your epitaphs I'm grieved
First Line:
Friend in your epitaphs I'm grieved
Last Line:
The other never read
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
24504
177.
For never was it given to mortal man
First Line:
For never was it given to mortal man
Last Line:
And call your maids to witness how he lies
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
1359
178.
For forms of government let fools contest
First Line:
For forms of government let fools contest
Last Line:
And all of God that bless mankind or mend
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28241
179.
For forms of government let fools contest
First Line:
For forms of government let fools contest
Last Line:
And bade self-love and social be the same
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30150
180.
For him alone hope leads from goal to goal
First Line:
For him alone hope leads from goal to goal
Last Line:
Are given in vain but what they seek they find
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28212
181.
For him alone hope leads from goal to goal
First Line:
For him alone hope leads from goal to goal
Last Line:
It pours the bliss that fills up all the mind
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28243
182.
For him thou oft hast bid the world attend
First Line:
For him thou oft hast bid the world attend
Last Line:
And pleased to escape from flattery to wit
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
32747
183.
For what one likes if others like as well
First Line:
For what one likes if others like as well
Last Line:
All join to guard what each desires to gain
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28238
184.
For Venus had never seen bedded
First Line:
For Venus had never seen bedded
Last Line:
To the beautiful Molly Le P--ll
DMI number:
22769
185.
Flavia's a wit has too much sense to pray
First Line:
Flavia's a wit has too much sense to pray
Last Line:
And die of nothing but a rage to live
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30966
186.
Generous gay and gallant nation
First Line:
Generous gay and gallant nation
Last Line:
Happy soil adieu adieu
Author:
Alexander Pope (Speculation)
DMI number:
15387
187.
Go tuneful bird forbear to soar
First Line:
Go tuneful bird forbear to soar
Last Line:
While wretched lovers sing in vain
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
8245
188.
Go wondrous creature mount where science guides
First Line:
Go wondrous creature mount where science guides
Last Line:
Then drop into thyself and be a fool
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28218
189.
Go wondrous mount where science guides
First Line:
Go wondrous mount where science guides
Last Line:
Then drop into thyself and be a fool
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
35214
190.
God in the nature of each being founds
First Line:
God in the nature of each being founds
Last Line:
And creature's linked to creature man to man
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
31555
191.
God in the nature of its being founds
First Line:
God in the nature of its being founds
Last Line:
And creature linked to creature man to man
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
34228
192.
Go fair example of untainted youth
First Line:
Go fair example of untainted youth
Last Line:
'Tis also a father all a friend can give
Author:
Alexander Pope (Confident)
DMI number:
2932
193.
Go fair example of untainted youth
First Line:
Go fair example of untainted youth
Last Line:
Go and exalt thy moral to divine
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
13056
194.
Go fair example of untainted youth
First Line:
Go fair example of untainted youth
Last Line:
Tis all a father all a friend can give
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
185
195.
Go if your ancient but ignoble blood
First Line:
Go if your ancient but ignoble blood
Last Line:
Nor own your fathers have been fools so long
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
28367
196.
Goddess of woods tremendous in the chase
First Line:
Goddess of woods tremendous in the chase
Last Line:
And choirs of virgins celebrate thy praise
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
13061
197.
Great Villers' fate sage Cutler could foresee
First Line:
Great Villers' fate sage Cutler could foresee
Last Line:
That I can do when all I have is gone
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
24862
198.
Great wits says Pope may gloriously offend
First Line:
Great wits says Pope may gloriously offend
Last Line:
And rise to faults true critics dare not mend
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
36479
199.
Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend
First Line:
Great wits sometimes may gloriously offend
Last Line:
The heart and all its end at once attains
Author:
Alexander Pope (Absolute)
DMI number:
30102
200.
Grown old in rhyme twas barbarous to discard
First Line:
Grown old in rhyme twas barbarous to discard
Last Line:
Nor force him to be damned to get his living
Author:
Sir Richard Steele (Confident) & Alexander Pope (Absolute) & Anne Finch [nee Kingsmill] (Speculation) & Joseph Addison (Confident)
DMI number:
13373
« Previous
Next »
1
2
3
4
5
6
…
11
12