University of Virginia Library

Search this document 
Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt
Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

collapse section 
[section]
  
A PARAPHRASE on Thomas a Kempis;
expand section 
Verses in imitation of WALLER.
expand section 
Verses in imitation of COWLEY.
  
To the AUTHOR of a POEM, intitled, SUCCESSIO.
expand section 
LINES from ALCANDER and the EARLY POEMS.
  
An Epistle to Henry Cromwell, Esq
  
EPIGRAM.
  
LETTER to CROMWELL.
  
ARGUS.
  
LINES
expand section 
LINES Added to WYCHERLEY's Poems.
  
RONDEAU.
  
On the Statue of CLEOPATRA, made into a Fountain by Leo the Tenth.
  
PSALM XCI.
  
STANZA'S.
  
From BOETIUS, de cons. Philos.
expand section 
COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1708–1710
  
HYMN of St. FRANCIS XAVIER.
expand section 
LINES FROM The Critical Specimen.
  
EPITAPH.
  
The Balance of Europe.
  
VERSES To be prefix'd before BERNARD LINTOT's New MISCELLANY.
  
VERSES Occasion'd by an &c. at the End of Mr. D'Urfy's Name in the Title to one of his Plays.
 I. 
I. Adriani morientis ad Animam,
  
On a LADY who P---st at the TRAGEDY of CATO; Occasion'd by an EPIGRAM on a LADY who wept at it.
  
PROLOGUE,
  
TWO OR THREE;
  
UPON A Girl of Seven Years old.
  
To BELINDA on the Rape of the Lock.
  
THE THREE gentle SHEPHERDS.
expand section 
VERSES in the SCRIBLERIAN MANNER.
  
IMPROMPTU, To Lady Winchelsea.
  
To EUSTACE BUDGELL, Esq.
  
To a LADY with the Temple of Fame.
  
A Farewell to LONDON.
expand section 
Four Poems from A KEY to the LOCK.
expand section 
CHARACTERS
  
THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER.
  
To Mr. John Moore,
  
A Roman Catholick Version OF THE FIRST PSALM,
  
IMITATION OF MARTIAL,
  
Written over a Study; out of Maynard.
  
SANDYS's GHOST:
  
EPIGRAM.
  
PROLOGUE TO THE Three Hours after Marriage.
  
THE COURT BALLAD.
expand section 
EPIGRAMS, Occasion'd by An Invitation to Court.
  
VERSES Sent to Mrs. T. B. with his Works.
  
The PRAYER of BRUTUS.
  
A HYMN Written in WINDSOR Forest.
  
LINES to Lord BATHURST.
  
VERSES in the SCRIBLERIAN Manner.
expand section 
THREE EPITAPHS On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .
  
ANSWER to Mrs. HOWE
  
A DIALOGUE.
  
On Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Portrait.
  
TO Sir Godfrey Kneller,
  
In behalf of Mr. SOUTHERNE. To the Duke of ARGYLE.
  
Lines from ACIS and GALATEA.
  
DUKE upon DUKE.
  
An Inscription upon a Punch-Bowl, in the South-Sea Year for a Club, chas'd withJupiter placing Callista in the Skies & Europa with the Bull.
  
To Mr. GAY,
expand section 
COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1711–1720
  
To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day.
  
INSCRIPTION.
  
EPITAPH
  
On a certain Lady at Court.
  
LINES
  
Receipt to make Soup.
  
[Presentation Verses to Nathaniel Pigott]
  
The CAPON'S TALE:
  
THE DISCOVERY:
  
EPIGRAM, in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Book.
expand section 
Verses on GULLIVER's TRAVELS.
  
EPITAPH
  
Fragment of a Satire.
  
SYLVIA,
  
LINES FROM The Art of Sinking.
  
VERSES
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of OXFORD.
  
EPITAPH.
expand section 
EPITAPHS
expand section 
EPIGRAMS from THE DUNCIAD. 1729–1730.
expand section 
COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1721–1730
  
PROLOGUE TO SOPHONISBA. By a Friend.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
To MR. C.
expand section 
EPIGRAMS.
  
LINES TO A FRIEND.
  
On the Countess of B--- cutting Paper.
  
HORACE, Satyr 4. Lib. 1. Paraphrased.
  
Wrote by Mr. P. in a Volume of Evelyn on Coins, presented to a painter by a parson.
  
THE SIX MAIDENS.
  
EPITAPH.
expand section 
POEMS from Miscellanies. The Third Volume. 1732.
expand section 
The CRUX-EASTON Epigrams.
  
To the Earl of Burlington asking who writ the Libels against him.
  
PROLOGUE, For the Benefit of Mr. DENNIS, 1733.
  
To Ld. Hervey & Lady Mary Wortley
  
[A CHARACTER]
expand section 
EPIGRAMS Occasioned by Cibber's Verses in Praise of Nash.
  
EPITAPH.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
EPITAPH On John Knight.
  
BOUNCE TO FOP.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
SONNET
  
EPITAPH
  
On receiving from the Right Hon. the LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY A STANDISH AND TWO PENS
  
On lying in the Earl of ROCHESTER's Bed at ATTERBURY.
  
VERSES on a GROTTO by the River Thames at Twickenham, composed of Marbles, Spars, and Minerals.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
EPITAPH.
  
Verbatim from Boileau,
  
On the Benefactions in the late Frost, 1740.
expand section 
COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1731–1740
expand section 
EPIGRAMS.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
TOM SOUTHERNE's Birth-day Dinner at LD. ORRERY's.
  
EPIGRAM
  
EPITAPH On Mr. ROWE.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
Fragment of Brutus, an Epic
  
Lines on BOUNCE.

collapse section Collapse All | Expand All expand section
previous section Alexander Pope: Minor poems
next section
333

LINES TO A FRIEND.

Written at his Mother's Bedside.

While ev'ry Joy, successful Youth! is thine,
Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine.
Me long, ah long! may these soft Cares engage;
To rock the Cradle of reposing Age,
With lenient Arts prolong a Parent's Breath,
Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of Death.
Me, when the Cares my better Years have shown
Another's Age, shall hasten on my own;
Shall some kind Hand, like B***'s or thine,
Lead gently down, and favour the Decline?
In Wants, in Sickness, shall a Friend be nigh,
Explore my Thought, and watch my asking Eye?
Whether that Blessing be deny'd, or giv'n,
Thus far, is right; the rest belongs to Heav'n.
previous section Alexander Pope: Minor poems
next section