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Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.

Alexander Pope

Ocean, Ambition, Hands

Alexander Pope (1835). “The Works of Alexander Pope: With a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notes on Each Poem”, p.21

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Alexander Pope

Life, Laughter, Eye

'An Essay on Man' Epistle 1 (1733) l. 13

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age. Pleased with this bauble still, as that before, Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er.

Alexander Pope

Life, Prayer, Children

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker (1871). “The Works: Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials”, p.397

Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves, When thro' the clouds he drives the trembling doves.

Alexander Pope

Moving, Clouds, Eagles

Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.135, Delphi Classics

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

Alexander Pope

Life, Heart, Sheep

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.21

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

Alexander Pope

Men, Insult, Swearing

Alexander Pope (1872). “Pope. Satires and Epistles, ed. by M. Pattison”, p.99

To the Elysian shades dismiss my soul, where no carnation fades.

Alexander Pope

Soul, Shade, Paradise

Alexander Pope (1751). “The works of Alexander Pope. With his last corrections, additions, and improvements. Publ. by mr. Warburton. With occasional notes”, p.204

A pear-tree planted nigh: 'Twas charg'd with fruit that made a goodly show, And hung with dangling pears was every bough.

Alexander Pope

Tree, Fruit, Pears

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.273

Trace Science, then, with Modesty thy guide, First strip off all her equipage of Pride, Deduct what is but Vanity or Dress, Or Learning's Luxury or idleness, Or tricks, to show the stretch of the human brain Mere curious pleasure or ingenious pain.

Alexander Pope

Pain, Learning, Pride

Alexander Pope (1873). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Edited with Notes and Introductory Memoir by Adolphus William Ward”, p.202

The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

Alexander Pope

Soul, Poor, Holes

Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.367

Death, only death, can break the lasting chain; And here, ev'n then, shall my cold dust remain

Alexander Pope

Dust, Cold, Break

Alexander Pope (1819). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Three Volumes Complete : with His Last Corrections, Additions, and Improvements, Together with All His Notes, as They Were Delivered to the Editor a Little Before His Death : Together with the Commentary and Notes of Mr. Warburton”, p.212

O Love! for Sylvia let me gain the prize, And make my tongue victorious as her eyes.

Alexander Pope

Life, Eye, Tongue

Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”, p.23

Monuments, like men, submit to fate.

Alexander Pope

Fate, Men, Submit

Alexander Pope (1849). “Letters of Alexander Pope Works and Arranged Expresly for the Use Young People”, p.70

Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these.

Alexander Pope

Contentment, Ease, Action

Alexander Pope (1752). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Moral essays”, p.124

But touch me, and no minister so sore. Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme, Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burthen of some merry song.

Alexander Pope

Song, Long, Sacred

Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson (1839). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In 1 volume”, p.128

So upright Quakers please both man and God.

Alexander Pope

Men, Religion, Quaker

Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.331

A king may be a tool, a thing of straw; but if he serves to frighten our enemies, and secure our property, it is well enough; a scarecrow is a thing of straw, but it protects the corn.

Alexander Pope

Kings, Enemy, Tools

Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.131

The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Alexander Pope

Hands, Play, Blood

Alexander Pope (1804). “The Leaser. Being a Selection from the Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, with an Account of His Life and Writings”, p.4

In lazy apathy let stoics boast, their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost; contracted all, retiring to the breast; but strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope

Being Strong, Exercise, Lazy

Alexander Pope, George Croly (1854). “The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]”, p.263

Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

Alexander Pope

Writing, Criticism, Censure

Alexander Pope (1853). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope”

A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.

Alexander Pope

Moving, Perfect, Judging

Alexander Pope (1804). “A Select Collection of Poems: Viz. An Essay on Man; An Essay on Criticism; The Messiah; &c. &c. ... To which are Prefixed, An Account of the Life of the Author”, p.105

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

Life, Lying, Venus

Alexander Pope, John Wilson Croker, Whitwell Elwin, William John Courthope (1871). “The Works of Alexander Pope: New Ed. Including Several Hundred Unpublished Letters, and Other New Materials, Collected in Part by John Wilson Croker. With Introd. and Notes by Whitwell Elwin”, p.180

No more was seen the human form divine.

Alexander Pope

Divine, Form, Humans

Alexander Pope (1796). “The Beauties of Pope, Or, Useful and Entertaining Passages: Selected from the Works of that Admired Author : as Well as from His Translation of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, &c”, p.83