Alexander Pope

Alexander Pope (21 May 1688 – 30 May 1744) was an 18th-century English poet, best known for his satirical verse and for his translation of Homer. Famous for his use of the heroic couplet, he is the third-most frequently quoted writer in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, after Shakespeare and Tennyson.

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    Tell me, my soul, can this be death?
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    But when to mischiefmortals bend their will,
    How soon they find fit instruments of ill!
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Oh blindness to the future! kindly giv’n,
    That each may fill the circle mark’d by Heav’n:
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

    Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutor’d mind
    Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind;
    Alexander Pope (1688–1744)