The long historian of my country's woes.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line 142
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line 142
Related:
- What mighty woes
To thy imperial race from woman rose!
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer... - A faultless body and a blameless mind.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line... - The lot of man,--to suffer and to die.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
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The Odyssey of Homer, Book iii, Line... - Just are the ways of Heaven: from Heaven proceed
The woes of man;
Heaven doom'd the Greeks to bleed,-- A theme of future... - When now Aurora, daughter of the dawn,
With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer... - Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
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Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer... - In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Odyssey of Homer... - Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring
Of woes unnumber'd,
heavenly goddess, sing! -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)... - Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will:
for Wisdom never lies. -- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)...
