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Alexander Pope: Minor poems

Edited by Norman Ault: Completed by John Butt

Pope, Alexander (1688-1744)

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A PARAPHRASE on Thomas a Kempis;

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Verses in imitation of WALLER.

I.

I. Of the Lady who could not sleep in a stormy Night.

II.

II. Of her Picture.

III.

III. Of her Sickness.

IV.

IV. Of her walking in a Garden after a Shower.

V.

V. Of her Sighing.

Verses in imitation of COWLEY.

To the AUTHOR of a POEM, intitled, SUCCESSIO.

LINES from ALCANDER and the EARLY POEMS.

An Epistle to Henry Cromwell, Esq

LETTER to CROMWELL.

LINES Added to WYCHERLEY's Poems.

On the Statue of CLEOPATRA, made into a Fountain by Leo the Tenth.

From BOETIUS, de cons. Philos.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1708–1710

HYMN of St. FRANCIS XAVIER.

LINES FROM The Critical Specimen.

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.

UPON A Girl of Seven Years old.

To BELINDA on the Rape of the Lock.

THE THREE gentle SHEPHERDS.

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.

Four Poems from A KEY to the LOCK.

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:

PROLOGUE TO THE Three Hours after Marriage.

THE COURT BALLAD.

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.

THREE EPITAPHS On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .

ANSWER to Mrs. HOWE

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.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1711–1720

To Mrs. M. B. on her Birth-day.

On a certain Lady at Court.

Receipt to make Soup.

[Presentation Verses to Nathaniel Pigott]

The CAPON'S TALE:

EPIGRAM, in a Maid of Honour's Prayer-Book.

Verses on GULLIVER's TRAVELS.

Fragment of a Satire.

LINES FROM The Art of Sinking.

To the Right Honourable the Earl of OXFORD.

EPIGRAMS from THE DUNCIAD. 1729–1730.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1721–1730

PROLOGUE TO SOPHONISBA. By a Friend.

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.

POEMS from Miscellanies. The Third Volume. 1732.

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

EPIGRAMS Occasioned by Cibber's Verses in Praise of Nash.

EPITAPH On John Knight.

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.

Verbatim from Boileau,

On the Benefactions in the late Frost, 1740.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1731–1740

TOM SOUTHERNE's Birth-day Dinner at LD. ORRERY's.

EPITAPH On Mr. ROWE.

Fragment of Brutus, an Epic

Lines on BOUNCE.

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9

I. Of the Lady who could not sleep in a stormy Night.

As gods sometimes descend from heav'n and deign
On earth a while with mortals to remain,
So gentle sleep from Serenissa flies,
To dwell at last upon her lover's eyes.
That god's indulgence can she justly crave,
Who flies the tyrant to relieve the slave?
Or should those eyes alone that rest enjoy,
Which in all others they themselves destroy?
Let her whom fear denies repose to take,
Think for her love what crowds of wretches wake.
So us'd to sighs, so long inur'd to tears,
Are winds and tempests dreadful to her ears?
Jove with a nod may bid the world to rest,
But Serenissa must becalm the breast.