Sound And Sense poem – Alexander Pope

A poem by Alexander Pope (1688-1744) , the greatest English poet of “Augustan” or Georgian period

True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,

As those move easiest who have learned to dance.

‘Tis not enough no harshness gives offense,

The sound must seem an echo to the sense:

Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows,

And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;

But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,

The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar;

When Ajax strives some rock’s vast weight to throw,

The line too labors, and the words move slow;

Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain,

Flies o’er the unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Hear how Timotheus’ varied lays surprise,

And bid alternate passions fall and rise!

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• All Things Will Die poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Alfred Lord Tennyson; The Coming Of Arthur poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• After-Thought poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• A Farewell poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Villonaud for This Yule poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• Villanelle: The Psychological Hour poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• Ts’ai Chi’h poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• These Fought in Any Case poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Tree poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Summons poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Seafarer poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Return poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Plunge poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Needle poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Lake Isle poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
• The Jewel Stairs’ Grievance poem – Ezra Pound poems by Ezra Pound
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