English poem
On Mrs Pulteney.[81]
by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
With scornful mien, and various toss of air, Fantastic, vain, and insolently fair, Grandeur intoxicates her giddy brain, She looks ambition, and she moves disdain. Far other carriage graced her virgin life, But charming Gumley's lost in Pulteney's wife. Not greater arrogance in him we find, And this conjunction swells at least her mind: Oh could the sire, renown'd in glass, produce One faithful mirror for his daughter's use! Wherein she might her haughty errors trace, And by reflection learn to mend her face: The wonted sweetness to her form restore, Be what she was, and charm mankind once more!
More by Alexander Pope
- On Her Leaving The Town After The Coronation.[74]
- On His Grotto At Twickenham
- On His Grotto At Twickenham, Composed Of Marbles, Spars, Gems, Ores, And Minerals.
- On Mr. Gay
- On Mrs Tofts, A Celebrated Opera Singer.
- On One Who Made Long Epitaphs.[129]
- On Seeing The Ladies Crux-Easton Walk In The Woods By The Grotto.
- On Silence.