title: The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
author:  Alexander Pope 
description: Alexander Pope, master of the heroic couplet, is the best-known poet of the early eighteenth century. Several of Pope's couplets have been so often quoted that they seem like cliches now, which is an indication of the power and influence of his work. Some examples are ""A little learning is a dang'rous thing"", ""To err is human, to forgive, divine"", and""For fools rush in where angels fear to tread"". Most of us, at some point in our lives, have quoted Pope without realizing it.
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  THE RAPE OF THE LOCK
  
  
    
    
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  # THE RAPE OF THE LOCK. AN HEROI-COMICAL POEM
  
  
  ### Alexander Pope
  
  
  
  
  
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  WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs,
  
  
  What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things,
  
  
  I sing -- This Verse to C---, Muse! is due;
  
  
  This, ev'n Belinda may vouchfafe to view:
  
  
  Slight is the Subject, but not so the Praise,
  
  
  If She inspire, and He approve my Lays.
  
  
  Say what strange Motive, G