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
blessing heaven soul
Heaven breathes thro' ev'ry member of the whole One common blessing, as one common soul.
men heaven weakness
Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
self heaven silence
Silence! coeval with eternity! thou wert ere Nature's self began to be; thine was the sway ere heaven was formed on earth, ere fruitful thought conceived creation's birth.
book fate heaven
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate.
birthday long heaven
Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.
self heaven stealing
Devotion's self shall steal a thought from heaven.
women race heaven
Heaven gave to woman the peculiar grace To spin, to weep, and cully human race.
heaven taught spires
Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?
heaven seven good-sense
Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven.
law order heaven
Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.
future circles heaven
Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven.
book creatures heaven hides page present state
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.
last lay
Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.