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
wings eagles gold
And little eagles wave their wings in gold.
wings light paper
Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
death wings victory
Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O grave! where is thy victory? O death! where is thy sting?
spring blood wings
See! From the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings; Short is his joy! He feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground.
love wings air
And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
wind wings flying
On wings of wind came flying all abroad.
wings air lists
No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall, list'ning, in mid-air suspend their wings.
wings hawks dove
Say, will the falcon, stooping from above, Smit with her varying plumage, spare the dove? Admires the jay the insect's gilded wings? Or hears the hawk when Philomela sings?
life air wings
Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.
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.