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Poems by Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (1688–1744) is represented here by 63 public-domain poems. The collection associates this work with Augustan and England.

1688–1744AugustanEngland63 poems

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  1. An Essay on Criticism747 lines · love · grief · death
  2. Eloisa to Abelard366 lines · love · grief · death
  3. Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, Being the Prologue to the Satires425 lines · love · grief · death
  4. Ode on Solitude20 lines · nature · solitude · time
  5. The Dying Christian to His Soul18 lines · death · spiritual · short lyric
  6. The Rape of the Lock: An Heroi-Comical Poem803 lines · love · grief · death
  7. An Essay on Man1312 lines · love · grief · death
  8. Artemisia25 lines · augustan
  9. Autumn102 lines · love · grief · death
  10. Book II. Satire VI. the First Part Imitated in the Year 1714, by Dr222 lines · love · death · nature
  11. Book IV. Ode I. to Venus.48 lines · love · joy · ode
  12. Chaucer27 lines · augustan
  13. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady82 lines · love · grief · death
  14. Epilogue to the Satires443 lines · love · grief · death
  15. Epistle to James Craggs, Esq., Secretary of State17 lines · short lyric · augustan
  16. Epistle to Miss Blount, with the Works of Voiture80 lines · love · death · spiritual
  17. Epistle to Mr Jervas, with Mr Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy's 'Art of Painting'78 lines · love · grief · death
  18. Epistle to Mrs. Teresa Blount. On Her Leaving the Town After the Coronation.50 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  19. Epistle to Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer40 lines · love · death · spiritual
  20. Epitaph. Another, on the Same.8 lines · solitude · short lyric · augustan
  21. Epitaph. For One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey.4 lines · justice · short lyric · augustan
  22. Epitaph. Intended for Mr Rowe, in Westminster Abbey.8 lines · death · short lyric · augustan
  23. Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey.7 lines · short lyric · augustan
  24. Epitaph. On Charles Earl of Dorset, in the Church of Withyam, in Sussex.16 lines · short lyric · augustan
  25. Epitaph. On Dr Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester, Who Died in Exile at Paris, 1732.12 lines · love · death · spiritual
  26. Epitaph. On Edmund Duke of Buckingham, Who Died in the Nineteenth Year of15 lines · time · short lyric · augustan
  27. Epitaph. On General Henry Withers, in Westminster Abbey, 1729.12 lines · love · time · short lyric
  28. Epitaph. On James Craggs, Esq. in Westminster Abbey.9 lines · short lyric · augustan
  29. Epitaph. On Mr Elijah Fenton, at Easthamstead, in Berks, 1730.10 lines · spiritual · short lyric · augustan
  30. Epitaph. On Mr Gay, in Westminster Abbey, 1732.12 lines · short lyric · augustan
  31. Epitaph. On Mrs Corbet, Who Died of a Cancer in Her Breast.10 lines · spiritual · short lyric · augustan
  32. Epitaph. On Sir Godfrey Kneller, in Westminster Abbey, 1723.8 lines · death · short lyric · augustan
  33. Epitaph. On Sir William Trumbull.12 lines · short lyric · augustan
  34. Epitaph. On the Hon. Simon Harcourt, Only Son of the Lord Chancellor9 lines · grief · spiritual · short lyric
  35. Epitaph. On the Monument of the Honourable Egbert Digby, and His Sister23 lines · grief · spiritual · joy
  36. Epitaph. On Two Lovers Struck Dead by Lightning.24 lines · death · spiritual · augustan
  37. Messiah109 lines · death · nature · spiritual
  38. Ode on St Cecilia's Day,134 lines · love · grief · death
  39. Of a Lady Singing to Her Lute13 lines · nature · joy · short lyric
  40. On a Fan of the Author's Design, in Which Was Painted the Story of Cephalus and Procris, with the Motto, 'Aura Veni'15 lines · imagination · short lyric · augustan
  41. On Silence43 lines · mystical · solitude · justice
  42. Part of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book16 lines · death · ode · short lyric
  43. Phryne25 lines · solitude · justice · augustan
  44. Prologue to Mr Addison's Tragedy of Cato46 lines · love · grief · death
  45. Satire I. to Mr Fortescue.160 lines · love · grief · death
  46. Satire II133 lines · love · death · nature
  47. Satire II. to Mr Bethel.1383 lines · love · grief · death
  48. Satire IV288 lines · love · grief · death
  49. Spring121 lines · love · grief · nature
  50. Summer,94 lines · love · nature · spiritual
  51. The Alley55 lines · augustan
  52. The Garden31 lines · love · nature · solitude
  53. The Happy Life of a Country Parson25 lines · augustan
  54. The Temple of Fame. Written in the Year MDCCXI.524 lines · love · grief · death
  55. To Mr C., St James's Place12 lines · time · short lyric · augustan
  56. To Mr John Moore, Author of the Celebrated Worm-Powder40 lines · time · augustan
  57. To Mr Thomas Southern, on His Birthday, 174220 lines · death · short lyric · augustan
  58. To Mrs M. B. on Her Birthday.20 lines · death · joy · time
  59. To the Author of a Poem Entitled Successio24 lines · augustan
  60. Two Choruses to the Tragedy of Brutus86 lines · love · grief · nature
  61. Weeping19 lines · grief · nature · spiritual
  62. Windsor-Forest.439 lines · love · grief · death
  63. Winter100 lines · love · grief · death