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Now lap-dogs give themselves the rousing shake,
And sleepless lovers, just at twelve, awake.
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Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us, since life can little more supply Than just to look about us, and to die, Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
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The wrath of Peleus' son, the direful spring Of all the Grecian woes, O goddess sing!
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Wit that can creep, and pride that licks the dust.
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For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
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Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn, Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
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Learn to live well, or fairly make your will;
You've played, and loved, and ate, and drunk your fill:
Walk sober off; before a sprightlier age
Comes tittering on, and shoves you from the stage.
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By mutual confidence, and mutual aid, Great deeds are done, and great discoveries made...
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Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.
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Music the fiercest grief can charm,
And fate's severest rage disarm. Music can soften pain to ease,
And make despair and madness please;
Our joys below it can improve,
And antedate the bliss above.
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The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.
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A spring there is, whose silver waters show Clear as a glass the shining sands below: A flowering lotos spreads its arms above, Shades all the banks, and seems itself a grove.
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Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
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To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.
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Though triumphs were to generals only due, crowns were reserved to grace the soldiers too.
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Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance.
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By flatterers besieged And so obliging that he ne'er obliged.
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Thus when we view some well-proportion'd dome. No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th' admiring eyes.
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Some place the bliss in action, some in ease,
Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.
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Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call, Till one man's weakness grows the strength of all.
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See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep.
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A man of business may talk of philosophy; a man who has none may practice it.
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Poets heap virtues, painters gems, at will, And show their zeal, and hide their want of skill.
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Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow: Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
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By music minds an equal temper know,
Nor swell too high, nor sink too low.
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Warriors she fires with animated sounds.
Pours balm into the bleeding lover's wounds.
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Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.
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Born:
May 21, 1688
Died:
May 30, 1744
(aged 56)
Bio:
Alexander Pope was an 18th-century English poet. He is best known for his satirical verse, as well as for his translation of Homer.
Known for:
The Rape of the Lock
An Essay on Man
An Essay on Criticism
The Dunciad
Eloisa to Abelard
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