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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;

Verses in imitation of WALLER.

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. Of her Sighing.

Verses in imitation of COWLEY.

I. Presenting a Lark.

II.

II. The River.

To the AUTHOR of a POEM, intitled, SUCCESSIO.

LINES from ALCANDER and the EARLY POEMS.

II.

III.

IV.

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. The Hyperbole.

XI.

XI. The Periphrasis

An Epistle to Henry Cromwell, Esq

LINES Added to WYCHERLEY's Poems.

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.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1708–1710

I. EPIGRAM.

II.

II. EPIGRAM.

III.

III. LINES.

HYMN of St. FRANCIS XAVIER.

LINES FROM The Critical Specimen.

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. 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.

VERSES in the SCRIBLERIAN MANNER.

II.

III.

IV.

VI.

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.

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.

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.

EPIGRAMS, Occasion'd by An Invitation to Court.

II.

III.

IV.

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.

THREE EPITAPHS On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .

II.

II. EPITAPH On John Hewet and Sarah Drew .

III.

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,

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1711–1720

II.

III.

IV.

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. 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.

Verses on GULLIVER's TRAVELS.

I. To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain.

II.

II. The Lamentation of Glumdalclitch, for the Loss of Grildrig.

III.

III. To Mr. Lemuel Gulliver ,

IV.

IV. Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver.

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.

EPITAPHS

I. Lord CONINGSBY's Epitaph.

II.

II. Applied to F. C.

EPIGRAMS from THE DUNCIAD. 1729–1730.

I. [On a Translation of Æschylus.]

II.

II. On James Moore Smythe.

III.

III. On Roome.

IV.

IV. On Burnet and Ducket.

V. On Shakespeare Restored.

VI.

VI. On his Busto.

VII.

VII. On Cibber.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1721–1730

I. Verses to Mrs. Judith Cowper.

II.

II. Lines to Bolingbroke .

III.

III. LINES In Conclusion of a Satire.

IV.

IV. Inscriptio.

V. CANTICLE

PROLOGUE TO SOPHONISBA. By a Friend.

II.

II. On Mr. M---re's going to Law with Mr. Gilliver.

III.

III. [On J. M. S. Gent.]

IV.

IV. EPITAPH

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.

POEMS from Miscellanies. The Third Volume. 1732.

I. Epitaph [of By-Words.]

II.

II. Epigram from the French.

III.

IV.

IV. EPIGRAM.

The CRUX-EASTON Epigrams.

I. On seeing the LADIES at Crux-Easton Walk in the Woods by the Grotto.

II.

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]

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

II.

EPITAPH.

EPIGRAM.

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.

EPIGRAM.

EPITAPH.

Verbatim from Boileau,

On the Benefactions in the late Frost, 1740.

COUPLETS & VERSICLES 1731–1740

I. Lines from Horace.

II.

II. On Queen Caroline's Death-bed.

III.

III. On a Picture of Queen Caroline, drawn by Lady Burlington.

IV.

IV. LINES

V. COUPLET

VI.

VI. On Dr. Alured Clarke

VII.

VIII.

IX.

II.

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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LINES FROM The Art of Sinking.

Who knocks at the Door?

For whom thus rudely pleads my loud-tongu'd Gate,
That he may enter?—

Shut the Door.

The wooden Guardian of our Privacy
Quick on its Axle turn.—

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Bring my Cloaths.

Bring me what Nature, Taylor to the Bear,
To Man himself deny'd: She gave me Cold,
But would not give me Cloaths.—

Light the Fire.

Bring forth some Remnant of Promethean theft,
Quick to expand th'inclement Air congeal'd
By Boreas's rude breath.—

Snuff the Candle.

Yon Luminary Amputation needs,
Thus shall you save its half-extinguish'd Life.

Uncork the Bottle, and chip the Bread.

Apply thine Engine to the spungy Door,
Set Bacchus from his glassy Prison free,
And strip white Ceres of her nut-brown Coat.