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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George, 1813-1878, Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

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Contents The Universal Prayer Moral Essays.

Epistle I.-to Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham. Argument. Of The Knowledge And Characters Of Men.

Epistle Ii.-to A Lady. Of The Characters Of Women.

Variations. Epistle Iii.[20]-to Allen Lord Bathurst. Argument. Of The Use Of Riches.

Epistle Iv.-to Richard Boyle, Earl Of Burlington. Argument. Of The Use Of Riches.

Variation. Epistle V. To Mr Addison. Occasioned By His Dialogues On Medals.[54]

Translations And Imitations. Sappho To Phaon. From The Fifteenth Of Ovid's Epistles.

The Fable Of Dryope.[56] From The Ninth Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

Vertumnus And Pomona, From The Fourteenth Book Of Ovid's Metamorphoses.

The First Book Of Statius's Thebais. Translated In The Year 1703. Argument.

* * * * * January And May. From Chaucer.[58]

The Wife Of Bath, Her Prologue. From Chaucer.

Prologue And Epilogues A Prologue Prologue To Mr Addison's 'cato.'

Prologue To Thomson's 'sophonisba.'[59] Prologue, Designed For Mr D'urfey's Last Play.

Prologue To 'the Three Hours After Marriage' Epilogue To Mr Rowe's 'jane Shore.' Designed For Mrs Oldfield.

A Farewell To London In The Year 1715. Sandys' Ghost;[82]

Umbra.[85] Sylvia, A Fragment. Impromptu To Lady Winchelsea.

To Erinna. A Dialogue. Ode To Quinbus Flestrin, The Lamentation Of Glumdalclitch For The Loss Of Grildrig. A Pastoral.

To Mr Lemuel Gulliver, Houyhnhnm. Mary Gulliver To Captain Lemuel Gulliver. An Epistle.

1740. A Fragment Of A Poem.

The Fourth Epistle Of The First Book Of Horace.[128]

Mr John Dennis. Mr Oldmixon. Mr Leonard Welsted,

Mr Addison. Mr John Dennis, Dr Garth,

Mr Theobald, Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728,) Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728,) Mist's Journal, June 8, 1728.

James Moore Smith, Gent. Mr James Moore Smith.

Mr Lewis Theobald Mr Theobald, Mr Charles Gildon,

P. * * * * * Martinus Scriblerus Of The Poem.

P. Ricardus Aristarchus Of The Hero Of The Poem.

By Authority. The Dunciad:[234] Book The First. To Dr Jonathan Swift. Argument.

Book The Second. Argument.

Book The Third. Argument.

Book The Fourth. Argument.

Variations. Ver. 114- By The Author. A Declaration.

Appendix To The Dunciad. I.-preface The Publisher To The Reader.

The Dunciad. Ii.-a List Of Books, Papers, And Verses,

Verses, Letters, Essays, Or Advertisements, In The Public Prints. After The Dunciad, 1728.

Iii.-advertisement To The First Edition-with Notes, In Quarto, 1729.

When Printed Separately In The Year 1742.

W. W. Vi.-advertisement Printed In The Journals, 1730. Vii.-a Parallel Of The Characters Of Mr Dryden And Mr Pope, As Drawn By Certain Of Their Contemporaries. Mr Dryden-his Politics, Religion, Morals.

Mr Dryden Only A Versifier. Mr Dryden's Virgil. Mr Dryden Understood No Greek Nor Latin. Mr Dryden Tricked His Subscribers. Names Bestowed On Mr Dryden.

Mr Pope-his Politics, Religion, Morals. Mr Pope Only A Versifier. Mr Pope's Homer. Mr Pope Understood No Greek. Mr Pope Tricked His Subscribers.

Names Bestowed On Mr Pope. Index Of Persons Celebrated In This Poem. The First Number Shows The Book; The Second, The Verse.

End Of Pope's Works.

'O father Phoebus! whether Lycia's coast And snowy mountains thy bright presence boast: 830 Whether to sweet Castalia thou repair, And bathe in silver dews thy yellow hair; Or pleased to find fair Delos float no more, Delight in Cynthus and the shady shore; Or choose thy seat in Ilion's proud abodes, The shining structures raised by labouring gods: By thee the bow and mortal shafts are borne; Eternal charms thy blooming youth adorn: Skill'd in the laws of secret fate above, And the dark counsels of almighty Jove, 840 'Tis thine the seeds of future war to know, The change of sceptres and impending woe, When direful meteors spread through glowing air Long trails of light and shake their blazing hair. Thy rage the Phrygian felt, who durst aspire T' excel the music of thy heavenly lyre; Thy shafts avenged lewd Tityus' guilty flame, Th' immortal victim of thy mother's fame; Thy hand slew Python, and the dame who lost Her numerous offspring for a fatal boast. 850 In Phlegyas' doom thy just revenge appears, Condemn'd to Furies and eternal fears; He views his food, but dreads, with lifted eye, The mouldering rock that trembles from on high.

'Propitious hear our prayer, O power divine! And on thy hospitable Argos shine; Whether the style of Titan please thee more, Whose purple rays th' Achaemenes adore: Or great Osiris, who first taught the swain In Pharian fields to sow the golden grain; 860 Or Mithra, to whose beams the Persian bows, And pays, in hollow rocks, his awful vows; Mithra! whose head the blaze of light adorns, Who grasps the struggling heifer's lunar horns.'

* * * * *

JANUARY AND MAY.

FROM CHAUCER.[58]

There lived in Lombardy, as authors write, In days of old, a wise and worthy knight; Of gentle manners, as of generous race, Bless'd with much sense, more riches, and some grace: Yet, led astray by Venus' soft delights, He scarce could rule some idle appetites: For long ago, let priests say what they could, Weak sinful laymen were but flesh and blood.

But in due time, when sixty years were o'er, He vow'd to lead this vicious life no more; 10 Whether pure holiness inspired his mind, Or dotage turn'd his brain, is hard to find; But his high courage prick'd him forth to wed, And try the pleasures of a lawful bed. This was his nightly dream, his daily care, And to the heavenly powers his constant prayer, Once, ere he died, to taste the blissful life Of a kind husband and a loving wife.