The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.Reading editionChapter navigation85 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPETHE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.MORAL ESSAYS.EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.EPISTLE III.20—TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. OF THE USE OF RICHES.EPISTLE IV.—TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. OF THE USE OF RICHES.EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON. OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS.54TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS. SAPPHO TO PHAON. FROM THE FIFTEENTH OF OVID'S EPISTLES.THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.56 FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS. TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER.58THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. FROM CHAUCER.A PROLOGUE TO A PLAY FOR MR DENNIS'S BENEFIT, IN 1733, WHEN HE WAS OLD, BLIND, AND IN GREAT DISTRESS, A LITTLE BEFORE HIS DEATH.PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.'PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.'59PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY.PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE'EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.' DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.THE BASSET-TABLE.62 AN ECLOGUE.LINES ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY63 A STANDISH AND TWO PENS.VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.MACER: A CHARACTER.SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733.ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, AND MINERALS.ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING-ROOM. AN ECLOGUE.TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, PAINTED BY KNELLER.LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEAVE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE. ON HIS LYING IN THE SAME BED WHICH WILMOT, THE CELEBRATED EARL OF ROCHESTER, SLEPT IN AT ADDERBURY, THEN BELONGING TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, JULY 9, 1739.THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW AT LAND.'THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.THE TRANSLATOR.THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS PULTENEY.81A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715.SANDYS' GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSLATED BY PERSONS OF QUALITY.UMBRA.85SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA. OCCASIONED BY FOUR SATIRICAL VERSES ON WOMEN WITS, IN 'THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.'EPIGRAM.EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.EPIGRAM.EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.EPITAPH ON GAY.EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716.TO A LADY, WITH THE 'TEMPLE OF FAME.'ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES, MADE FOR POPE BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER.ON BENTLEY'S 'MILTON.'LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST.TO ERINNA.A DIALOGUE.ODE TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN,87 BY TITTY TIT, POET-LAUREATE TO HIS MAJESTY OF LILLIPUT. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG. A PASTORAL.TO MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY HOUYHNHNMS, NOW IN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN ENGLAND.MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER. AN EPISTLE.1740. A FRAGMENT OF A POEM.THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.128EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS.129ON AN OLD GATE. ERECTED IN CHISWICK GARDENS.A FRAGMENT.TO MR GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS.ARGUS.PRAYER OF BRUTUS. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS.THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, DEO OPT. MAX.A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER, OCCASIONED BY THE FIRST CORRECT EDITION OF THE DUNCIAD.MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS HIS PROLEGOMENA AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DUNCIAD: WITH THE HYPERCRITICS OF ARISTARCHUS.TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS CONCERNING OUR POET AND HIS WORKS.THE DUNCIAD:234 BOOK THE FIRST. TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT.BOOK THE SECOND.BOOK THE THIRD.BOOK THE FOURTH.APPENDIX TO THE DUNCIAD.INDEX OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.FOOTNOTES:FOOTNOTES: (continued 2)Previous chapter ←ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.Next chapter →EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.All chapters and sections (85)THE POETICAL WORKS OF ALEXANDER POPETHE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE.MORAL ESSAYS.EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM. OF THE KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTERS OF MEN.EPISTLE III.20—TO ALLEN LORD BATHURST. OF THE USE OF RICHES.EPISTLE IV.—TO RICHARD BOYLE, EARL OF BURLINGTON. OF THE USE OF RICHES.EPISTLE V. TO MR ADDISON. OCCASIONED BY HIS DIALOGUES ON MEDALS.54TRANSLATIONS AND IMITATIONS. SAPPHO TO PHAON. FROM THE FIFTEENTH OF OVID'S EPISTLES.THE FABLE OF DRYOPE.56 FROM THE NINTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.VERTUMNUS AND POMONA, FROM THE FOURTEENTH BOOK OF OVID'S METAMORPHOSES.THE FIRST BOOK OF STATIUS'S THEBAIS. TRANSLATED IN THE YEAR 1703.JANUARY AND MAY. FROM CHAUCER.58THE WIFE OF BATH, HER PROLOGUE. FROM CHAUCER.A PROLOGUE TO A PLAY FOR MR DENNIS'S BENEFIT, IN 1733, WHEN HE WAS OLD, BLIND, AND IN GREAT DISTRESS, A LITTLE BEFORE HIS DEATH.PROLOGUE TO MR ADDISON'S 'CATO.'PROLOGUE TO THOMSON'S 'SOPHONISBA.'59PROLOGUE, DESIGNED FOR MR D'URFEY'S LAST PLAY.PROLOGUE TO 'THE THREE HOURS AFTER MARRIAGE'EPILOGUE TO MR ROWE'S 'JANE SHORE.' DESIGNED FOR MRS OLDFIELD.THE BASSET-TABLE.62 AN ECLOGUE.LINES ON RECEIVING FROM THE EIGHT HON. THE LADY FRANCES SHIRLEY63 A STANDISH AND TWO PENS.VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. UN JOUR DIT UN AUTEUR, ETC.ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE.OCCASIONED BY SOME VERSES OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM.MACER: A CHARACTER.SONG, BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1733.ON A CERTAIN LADY AT COURT.ON HIS GROTTO AT TWICKENHAM, COMPOSED OF MARBLES, SPARS, GEMS, ORES, AND MINERALS.ROXANA, OR THE DRAWING-ROOM. AN ECLOGUE.TO LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE.EXTEMPORANEOUS LINES ON A PORTRAIT OF LADY MARY WORTLEY MONTAGUE, PAINTED BY KNELLER.LINES SUNG BY DURASTANTI, WHEN SHE TOOK LEAVE OF THE ENGLISH STAGE.UPON THE DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH'S HOUSE AT WOODSTOCK.VERSES LEFT BY MR POPE. ON HIS LYING IN THE SAME BED WHICH WILMOT, THE CELEBRATED EARL OF ROCHESTER, SLEPT IN AT ADDERBURY, THEN BELONGING TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL, JULY 9, 1739.THE CHALLENGE, A COURT BALLAD. TO THE TUNE OF 'TO ALL YOU LADIES NOW AT LAND.'THE THREE GENTLE SHEPHERDS.EPIGRAM, ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS.THE TRANSLATOR.THE LOOKING-GLASS. ON MRS PULTENEY.81A FAREWELL TO LONDON IN THE YEAR 1715.SANDYS' GHOST;82 OR, A PROPER NEW BALLAD ON THE NEW OVID'S METAMORPHOSES: AS IT WAS INTENDED TO BE TRANSLATED BY PERSONS OF QUALITY.UMBRA.85SYLVIA, A FRAGMENT.IMPROMPTU TO LADY WINCHELSEA. OCCASIONED BY FOUR SATIRICAL VERSES ON WOMEN WITS, IN 'THE RAPE OF THE LOCK.'EPIGRAM.EPIGRAM ON THE FEUDS ABOUT HANDEL AND BONONCINI.ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.THE BALANCE OF EUROPE.EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY.EPIGRAM.EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH.EPITAPH ON GAY.EPIGRAM ON THE TOASTS OF THE KIT-CAT CLUB, ANNO 1716.TO A LADY, WITH THE 'TEMPLE OF FAME.'ON THE COUNTESS OF BURLINGTON CUTTING PAPER.ON DRAWINGS OF THE STATUES OF APOLLO, VENUS, AND HERCULES, MADE FOR POPE BY SIR GODFREY KNELLER.ON BENTLEY'S 'MILTON.'LINES WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST.TO ERINNA.A DIALOGUE.ODE TO QUINBUS FLESTRIN, THE MAN MOUNTAIN,87 BY TITTY TIT, POET-LAUREATE TO HIS MAJESTY OF LILLIPUT. TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.THE LAMENTATION OF GLUMDALCLITCH FOR THE LOSS OF GRILDRIG. A PASTORAL.TO MR LEMUEL GULLIVER, THE GRATEFUL ADDRESS OF THE UNHAPPY HOUYHNHNMS, NOW IN SLAVERY AND BONDAGE IN ENGLAND.MARY GULLIVER TO CAPTAIN LEMUEL GULLIVER. AN EPISTLE.1740. A FRAGMENT OF A POEM.THE FOURTH EPISTLE OF THE FIRST BOOK OF HORACE.128EPIGRAM ON ONE WHO MADE LONG EPITAPHS.129ON AN OLD GATE. ERECTED IN CHISWICK GARDENS.A FRAGMENT.TO MR GAY, WHO HAD CONGRATULATED POPE ON FINISHING HIS HOUSE AND GARDENS.ARGUS.PRAYER OF BRUTUS. FROM GEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH.LINES ON A GROTTO, AT CRUX-EASTON, HANTS.THE UNIVERSAL PRAYER, DEO OPT. MAX.A LETTER TO THE PUBLISHER, OCCASIONED BY THE FIRST CORRECT EDITION OF THE DUNCIAD.MARTINUS SCRIBLERUS HIS PROLEGOMENA AND ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE DUNCIAD: WITH THE HYPERCRITICS OF ARISTARCHUS.TESTIMONIES OF AUTHORS CONCERNING OUR POET AND HIS WORKS.THE DUNCIAD:234 BOOK THE FIRST. TO DR JONATHAN SWIFT.BOOK THE SECOND.BOOK THE THIRD.BOOK THE FOURTH.APPENDIX TO THE DUNCIAD.INDEX OF PERSONS CELEBRATED IN THIS POEM.FOOTNOTES:FOOTNOTES: (continued 2)Now Europe balanced, neither side prevails; For nothing's left in either of the scales.◇← ON MRS TOFTS, A CELEBRATED OPERA SINGER.EPITAPH ON LORD CONINGSBY. →