Poems on Several Occasions

fay on Tranflated Verfe, the Essay on Poetry, and the Essay on Criticism.

Lord LANSDOWN, Essay on Unnatural Flights, &c.
ROSCOMMON first, then MULGRAVE rofe, like light,
To clear our darkness, and to guide our flight:
With steady judgment, and in lofty founds,
They gave us patterns, and they let us bounds.
The STAGYRITE and HORACE laid afide,
Inform'd by them we need no foreign guide:
Who feck from Poetry a lasting name,
May from their lessons learn the road to fame.

PRIOR, Alma, Cant. 2. Happy the poet! bleft the lays!

Which BUCKINGHAM has deign'd to praise.

GARTH, Difpenfary.

Now Tyber's ftreams no courtly GALLUS fec,
But smiling Thames enjoys his NORMANBY.

POPE, Efay on Criticism.

Yet fome there were among the founder few,
Of those who lefs prefum'd, and better knew,
Who durft affert the jufter ancient cause,
And here restor'd Wit's fundamental laws.
Such was the muse, whose rules and practice tell,
"Nature's chief Master-piece is writing well."

POPE, Mifcellanies.

Muse, 'tis enough, at length thy labour ends:
And thou shalt live; for BUCKINGHAM commends.
Let crowds of criticks now my verse affail,
Let D--
-s write, and nameless numbers rail.
This more than pays whole years of thankless pain,
Time, health, and fortune, are not loft in vain:
SHEFFIELD approves; confenting PHOEBUS bends;
And I and malice from this hour are friends.