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
moving sky clouds
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.
sky light sea
Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
thinking sky dies
Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
sky light spirit
Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
lying sky bully
Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
wise dream sky
Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
flower rain sky
All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.
dog thinking sky
But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
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.
blessed expects man ninth shall
Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude
fault hide mercy teach
Teach me to feel another's woe. To hide the fault I see: That the mercy I show to others; that mercy also show to me.
english-poet fault hide mercy others teach
Teach me to feel another's woe,To hide the fault I see,That mercy I to others show,That mercy show to me.
censure ten writers-and-writing writes
Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.