Pastorali

More poems by Alexander Pope

• An Essay on Criticism

  'Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill
  Appear in Writing or in Judging ill,
  But, of the two, less dang'rous is th' Offence, …

• Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot

  Shut, shut the door, good John! fatigu'd, I said,
  Tie up the knocker, say I'm sick, I'm dead.
  The dog-star rages! nay 'tis past a doubt, …

• Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady

  What beck'ning ghost, along the moonlight shade
  Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade?
  'Tis she!—but why that bleeding bosom gored, …

• The Toilet

  From “The Rape of the Lock,” Canto I.
  AND now, unveiled, the toilet stands displayed,
  Each silver vase in mystic order laid. …

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