Heroes and kings! your distance keep:
In peace let one poor poet sleep,
Who never flatter'd folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
In peace let one poor poet sleep,
Who never flatter'd folks like you:
Let Horace blush, and Virgil too.
Leading English poet of the early 18th century, master of the heroic couplet. Famous for "The Rape of the Lock" and "An Essay on Man."
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