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
sky light sea
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
sky light spirit
Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
fall light flames
Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all.
light sight giving
True Wit is Nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought, but ne'er so well express'd; Something whose truth convinced at sight we find, That gives us back the image of our mind. As shades more sweetly recommend the light, So modest plainness sets off sprightly wit.
music dance light
Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav'n.
art science light
First follow Nature, and your judgment frame By her just standard, which is still the same: Unerring nature, still divinely bright, One clear, unchanged, and universal light, Life, force, and beauty must to all impart, At once the source, and end, and test of art.
wings light paper
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
night squares light
Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not to left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.
light criticism shade
And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made.
kings light degrees
Virtue may choose the high or low degree, 'Tis just alike to virtue, and to me; Dwell in a monk, or light upon a king, She's still the same belov'd, contented thing.
color light giving
The lights and shades, whose well-accorded strife gives all the strength and color of our life.
ajax light giving
The light of Heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more.
daughter nature light
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
draw peculiar plan
Fix'd like a plan on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.