Read full poem →Stood up to dash each vain pretender's hope,
Maul the French tyrant, or pull down the Pope!
If there's a Briton then, true bred and born,
Dictionary Entry
An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state.
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Poetry examples for “pope”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →[Footnote 94: Statius represents Polynices as terrified by the tempest.
Pope appears to have thought that this was derogatory to the character
of the fugitive king, and he calls him, when gazing on the ravages
Read full poem →earth went to the moon. An Italian poet, Ariosto, uses this notion in a
poem with which Pope was familiar ('Orlando Furioso', Canto XXXIV), and
from which he borrowed some of his ideas for the cave of Spleen.
Read full poem →John Gay, the idlest, best-natured, and best-loved man of letters of his
day, was the special friend of Pope. His early work, 'The Shepherd's
Week', was planned as a parody on the 'Pastorals' of Pope's rival,
Read full poem →How vain is reason, eloquence how weak!
If Pope must tell what Harcourt cannot speak.
Oh, let thy once-loved friend inscribe thy stone,
Read full poem →Tickell and Addison combine,
And Pope translate with Jervas.
Read full poem →The Works of Mr. ALEXANDER POPE. London: Printed by W.
BOWYER for BERNARD LINTOT, between the Temple Gates, 1717.
Read full poem →Pater meus, Alex. Pope, omnibus bonis moribus praeditus obit, an. 1717.
Read full poem →Smile, all ye valleys, in eternal spring, 45
Be hushed, ye winds, while Pope and Virgil sing.
In English lays, and all sublimely great,