Alexander Pope ( 10 of 261 )
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
Obliged by hunger and request of friends.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
For fools admire, but me of sense approve.
But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
But if
We have such another victory, we are undone.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.
Nature made every fop to plague his brother,
Just as one beauty mortifies another.
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish read more
Thus unlamented pass the proud away,
The gaze of fools and pageant of a day;
So perish all, whose breast ne'er learn'd to glow
For others' good, or melt at others' woe.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!.
In death a hero, as in life a friend!.
Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove,
. . . .
In those fair fields read more
Where stray ye, Muses! in what lawn or grove,
. . . .
In those fair fields where sacred Isis glides,
Or else where Cam his winding vales divides?
Of fight or fly,
This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
Of fight or fly,
This choice is left ye, to resist or die.
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
Who dare to love their country, and be poor.
