THE

COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS

OF

ALEXANDER POPE, ESQ.

WITH

AN ORIGINAL MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR,

EMBRACING NOTICES OF MANY EMINENT CONTEMPORARIES;

CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES,

ORIG NAL AND SELEO D'

AND

SEVERAL VALUABLE MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTIONS

NOT CONTAINED IN ANY C HER EDITION.

EDITED BY W. C. AB STRONG.

VOLUME I.

WORLD PUBLISHING HOUSE,

139 EIGHTH STREET,

NEW YORK.

A Discourse on Pastoral Poetry,

Spring: the First Pastoral, or Damon,

Summer: the Second Pastoral, or Alexis,

Autumn: the Third Pastoral, or Hylas and Ægon,

Winter: the Fourth Pastoral or Daphne,

Messiah, a Sacred Eclogue, with Imitations and Notes,

TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS:

The First Book of Statius's Thebais,

The Fable of Dryope,

Vertumnus and Pomona,

Sappho to Phaon,

The Temple of Fame,

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145

151

January and May, .

The Wife of Bath,

IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS: Chaucer, .

Spenser: The Alley,

Waller: "On a Lady singing to her Lute," and "On a Fan," 290

Dr. Swift: The Happy Life of a Country Parson,

297

THE BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE, by Parnelle and Pope, .

355

1740, a POEM,

369

POEMS, on reading the Travels Captain Lemuel Gulliver:

To Quinbus Flestrin, the Man-Mountain,

375

375

The Lamentation of Glumdalelitch for the Loss of Grildrig,

The Grateful Address of the Unhappy Houyhnhnms,

Mary Gulliver to Captain Lemuel Gulliver, an Epistle,

376

378

380

MISCELLANIES:

To the Author of a Poem entitled Successio; The Basset-table,

an Eclogue; on receiving from the Right Hon. Lady Frances

Shirley a Standish and Two Pens; a Farewell to London;

Macer, a Character; Occasioned by some Verses of his Grace

the Duke of Buckingham; a Dialogue-Pope and Craggs; on

his Grotto at Twickenham; Verbatim from Boileau, with the

Original; Answer to the Question, What is Prudery? Sylvia.

a Fragment; to Sir Godfrey Kneller; on the Countess of Bur-

lington cutting Paper,

FUGITIVE PIECES:

383

383--400

Song by a Person of Quality; Ode on Science; Verses on lying

in the same Bed in which the Earl of Rochester had slept; the

Challenge, a Court Ballad; the Translator; Impromptu to Lady

Winchelsea; Sandys' Ghost; the Looking-Glass; on Mrs.

Tofts; Umbra; on a Certain Lady at Court; Lines from a

Departed Spirit; Lines sung by Durastanti; Jeu D'Esprit on

the Duke of Marlborough's House at Woodstock; a Prayer of

Brutus; the Three Gentle Shepherds; Imitation of Martial;

on a Grotto at Crux- Easton,

EPIGRAMS,

EPITAPHS,

CONYENDATOI V POEVS,

401

401-16

417

419-34

449