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
english-poet faith life modes whose wrong
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
life god nature
All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.
inspirational funny life
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
life eye tongue
O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.
life two space
Ye gods, annihilate but space and time, And make two lovers happy.
life heart thinking
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well? To bear too tender or too firm a heart, To act a lover's or a Roman's part? Is there no bright reversion in the sky For those who greatly think, or bravely die?
life heart sheep
Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.
life sight swim
One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight; Priests, tapers, temples, swim before my sight.
life taught affliction
Of all affliction taught a lover yet, 'Tis true the hardest science to forget.
life grace zeal
Not grace, or zeal, love only was my call, And if I lose thy love, I lose my all.
life wealth fame
Fame, wealth, and honour! what are you to Love?
life passion age
See how the World its Veterans rewards! A Youth of Frolics, an old Age of Cards; Fair to no purpose, artful to no end, Young without Lovers, old without a Friend; A Fop their Passion, but their Prize a Sot; Alive ridiculous, and dead forgot.
life states middle
Placed on this isthmus of a middle state.
life law made
Curse on all laws but those which love has made.