One Simile That Solitary Shines In The Dry Desert Of A Thousand Lines.

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One simile that solitary shines
In the dry desert of a thousand lines.
-- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
-- Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epistle i, Book ii, Line 111

Above all Greek, above all Roman fame.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.
Who says in verse what others say in prose.
Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old.
Praise undeserv'd is scandal in disguise.
Lord Fanny spins a thousand such a day.
When the brisk minor pants for twenty-one.
Words that wise Bacon or brave Raleigh spoke.
The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.

One Simile That Solitary Shines In The Dry Desert Of A Thousand Lines.

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