Works By Alexander Pope

"And unextinguish'd laughter shakes the sky."

"Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow For others' good, and melt at others' woe."

"Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong!"

"Nor can one word be chang'd but for a worse."

"Unbless'd thy hand, if in this low disguise Wander, perhaps, some inmate of the skies."

"A winy vapour melting in a tear."

"No more was seen the human form divine."

"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

"Whatever day Makes man a slave, takes half his worth away."

"And every eye Gaz'd, as before some brother of the sky."

"For fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are misery and man!"

"A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue."

"In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight."

"But he whose inborn worth his acts commend, Of gentle soul, to human race a friend."

"Tell me, Muse, of the man of many wiles."

"For too much rest itself becomes a pain."

"A decent boldness ever meets with friends, Succeeds, and even a stranger recommends."

"Discourse, the sweeter banquet of the mind."

"To heal divisions, to relieve th' opprest; In virtue rich; in blessing others, blest."

"By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent."

"And not a man appears to tell their fate."

"And taste The melancholy joy of evils past: For he who much has suffer'd, much will know."

"Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales, And the good suffers while the bad prevails."

"A heaven of charms divine Nausicaa lay."

"Oh, pity human woe! 'T is what the happy to the unhappy owe."

"Heaven hears and pities hapless men like me, For sacred ev'n to gods is misery."

"A moment snatch’d the shining form away, And all was covered with the curling sea."

"The bank he press'd, and gently kiss'd the ground."

"Whose well-taught mind the present age surpast."

"For love deceives the best of womankind."

"Forget the brother, and resume the man."

"O thou, whose certain eye foresees The fix'd events of fate's remote decrees."

"The people's parent, he protected all."

"Wise to resolve, and patient to perform."

"The glory of a firm, capacious mind."

"The leader, mingling with the vulgar host, Is in the common mass of matter lost."

"The big round tear stands trembling in her eye."

"These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!"

"When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn."

"Mirror of constant faith, rever'd and mourn'd!"

"Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell."

"As when the moon, refulgent lamp of night, O'er heaven's clear azure spreads her sacred light, When not a breath disturbs the deep serene, And not a cloud o'ercasts the solemn scene; Around her throne the vivid planets roll, And stars unnumbered gild the glowing pole, O'er the dark trees a yellower verdure shed, And tip with silver every mountain's head; Then shine the vales, the rocks in prospect rise, A flood of glory bursts from all the skies."

"The long historian of my country's woes."

"As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain, — So sinks the youth; his beauteous head, depress'd Beneath his helmet, drops upon his breast."

"Life is not to be bought with heaps of gold: Not all Apollo's Pythian treasures hold, Or Troy once held, in peace and pride of sway, Can bribe the poor possession of a day."

"Short is my date, but deathless my renown."

"Injustice, swift, erect, and unconfin'd, Sweeps the wide earth, and tramples o'er mankind."

"A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests, and our passions, be; My friend must hate the man that injures me."

"To labour is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe."

"Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn."