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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.
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Verses in imitation of COWLEY.
 I. 
I. Presenting a Lark.
 II. 
II. The River.
  
To the AUTHOR of a POEM, intitled, SUCCESSIO.
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LINES from ALCANDER and the EARLY POEMS.
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I.
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II.
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III.
 IV. 
IV.
 V. 
V. On a lady's drinking the Bath-waters.
 VI. 
VI. The same lady goes into the Bath.
 VII. 
VII. The Metonymy.
 VIII. 
VIII. An Eye-witness of things never yet beheld by Man.
 IX. 
IX. How inimitably circumstantial is this [description] of a War-Horse!
 X. 
X. The Hyperbole.
 XI. 
XI. The Periphrasis
  
An Epistle to Henry Cromwell, Esq
  
EPIGRAM.
  
LETTER to CROMWELL.
  
ARGUS.
  
LINES
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LINES Added to WYCHERLEY's Poems.
 I. 
I. SIMILITUDES.
 II. 
II. SIMILITUDES.
 III. 
III. LINES
 IV. 
IV. CONCLUSION of The Bill of Fare.
  
RONDEAU.
  
On the Statue of CLEOPATRA, made into a Fountain by Leo the Tenth.
  
PSALM XCI.
  
STANZA'S.
  
From BOETIUS, de cons. Philos.
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COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1708–1710
 I. 
I. EPIGRAM.
 II. 
II. EPIGRAM.
 III. 
III. LINES.
  
HYMN of St. FRANCIS XAVIER.
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LINES FROM The Critical Specimen.
 I. 
I. A Simile.
 II. 
II. A Rhapsody.
  
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.
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VERSES in the SCRIBLERIAN MANNER.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
 VI. 
VI.
  
IMPROMPTU, To Lady Winchelsea.
  
To EUSTACE BUDGELL, Esq.
  
To a LADY with the Temple of Fame.
  
A Farewell to LONDON.
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Four Poems from A KEY to the LOCK.
 I. 
I. To my much Honoured and Esteemed Friend, Mr. E. Barnivelt, Author of the Key to the Lock. An Anagram and Acrostick. By N. Castleton, A Well-willer to the Coalition of Parties.
 II. 
II. To the Ingenious Mr. E. Barnivelt.
 III. 
III. To my Ingenious Friend, the Author of the Key to the Lock.
 IV. 
IV. To the most Learned Pharmacopolitan, and Excellent Politician, Mr. Esdras Barnivelt.
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CHARACTERS
 II. 
II. UMBRA.
 III. 
III. ATTICUS.
  
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.
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EPIGRAMS, Occasion'd by An Invitation to Court.
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II.
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III.
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IV.
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V.
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VI.
  
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.
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THREE EPITAPHS On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .
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I.
 II. 
II. EPITAPH On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .
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III. EPITAPH On the Stanton-Harcourt Lovers.
  
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,
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COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1711–1720
 I. 
I. LINES
 II. 
II. LINES.
 III. 
III. COUPLET.
 IV. 
IV. Inscription.
 V. 
V. A Winter Piece.
 VI. 
VI. Lines suppressed at the End of the Epistle—
 VII. 
VII. Lines from Horace III. iv.
 VIII. 
VIII. EPITAPH
 IX. 
IX. Couplets on Wit.
 X. 
X. Lines on Curll .
 XI. 
XI. Imitation of Tibullus .
 XII. 
XII. Lines on Mr. Hatton 's Clocks.
  
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.
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Verses on GULLIVER's TRAVELS.
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I. To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain.
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II. The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch, for the Loss of Grildrig.
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III. To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver ,
 IV. 
IV. Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver.
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V. The Words of the KING of BROBDINGNAG,
  
EPITAPH
  
Fragment of a Satire.
  
SYLVIA,
  
LINES FROM The Art of Sinking.
  
VERSES
  
To the Right Honourable the Earl of OXFORD.
  
EPITAPH.
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EPITAPHS
 I. 
I. Lord CONINGSBY's Epitaph.
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II. Applied to F. C.
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EPIGRAMS from THE DUNCIAD. 1729–1730.
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I. [On a Translation of Æschylus.]
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II. On James Moore Smythe.
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III. On Roome.
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IV. On Burnet and Ducket.
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V. On Shakespeare Restored.
 VI. 
VI. On his Busto.
 VII. 
VII. On Cibber.
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COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1721–1730
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I. Verses to Mrs. Judith Cowper.
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II. Lines to Bolingbroke .
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III. LINES In Conclusion of a Satire.
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IV. Inscriptio.
 V. 
V. CANTICLE
  
PROLOGUE TO SOPHONISBA. By a Friend.
  
EPIGRAM.
  
To MR. C.
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EPIGRAMS.
 I. 
I. On J. M. S. Gent.
 II. 
II. On Mr. M---re's going to Law with Mr. Gilliver.
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III. [On J. M. S. Gent.]
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IV. EPITAPH
 V. 
V. On the Candidates for the Laurel.
 VI. 
VI. On the Same.
 VII. 
VII. On DENNIS.
 VIII. 
VIII. Occasion'd by seeing some Sheets of Dr. B---tl*y's Edition of Milton's Paradise Lost.
  
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.
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POEMS from Miscellanies. The Third Volume. 1732.
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I. Epitaph [of By-Words.]
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II. Epigram from the French.
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III.
 IV. 
IV. EPIGRAM.
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The CRUX-EASTON Epigrams.
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I. On seeing the LADIES at Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto.
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II. Inscription on a Grotto of Shells at Crux-Easton the Work of Nine young Ladies.
  
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]
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EPIGRAMS Occasioned by Cibber's Verses in Praise of Nash.
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I.
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II.
  
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.
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COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1731–1740
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I. Lines from Horace.
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II. On Queen Caroline's Death-bed.
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III. On a Picture of Queen Caroline, drawn by Lady Burlington.
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IV. LINES
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V. COUPLET
 VI. 
VI. On Dr. Alured Clarke
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VII. COUPLET
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VIII. COUPLET.
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IX. LINES
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EPIGRAMS.
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I.
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II.
  
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.

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III. To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver ,

The Grateful ADDRESS of the Unhappy Houyhnhnms, now in Slavery and Bondage in England.

To thee, we Wretches of the Houyhnhnm Band,
Condemn'd to labour in a barb'rous Land,
Return our Thanks. Accept our humble Lays,
And let each grateful Houyhnhnm neigh thy Praise.
O happy Yahoo, purg'd from human Crimes,
By thy sweet Sojourn in those virtuous Climes,
Where reign our Sires! There, to thy Countrey's Shame,
Reason, you found, and Virtue were the same.
Their Precepts raz'd the Prejudice of Youth,
And even a Yahoo learn'd the Love of Truth.
Art thou the first who did the Coast explore;
Did never Yahoo tread that Ground before?
Yes, Thousands. But in Pity to their Kind,
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Or sway'd by Envy, or through Pride of Mind,
They hid their Knowledge of a nobler Race,
Which own'd, would all their Sires and Sons disgrace.
You, like the Samian, visit Lands unknown,
And by their wiser Morals mend your own.
Thus Orpheus travell'd to reform his Kind,
Came back, and tam'd the Brutes he left behind.
You went, you saw, you heard: With Virtue fraught,
Then spread those Morals which the Houyhnhnms taught.
Our Labours here must touch thy gen'rous Heart,
To see us strain before the Coach and Cart;
Compell'd to run each knavish Jockey's Heat!
Subservient to New-market's annual cheat!
With what Reluctance do we Lawyers bear,
To fleece their Countrey Clients twice a Year?
Or manag'd in your Schools, for Fops to ride,
How foam, how fret beneath a Load of Pride!
Yes, we are slaves—but yet, by Reason's Force,
Have learnt to bear Misfortune, like a Horse.
O would the Stars, to ease my Bonds, ordain,
That gentle Gulliver might guide my Rein!
Safe would I bear him to his Journey's End,
For 'tis a Pleasure to support a Friend.
But if my Life be doom'd to serve the Bad,
O! may'st thou never want an easy Pad!
Houyhnhnm.
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