From an Essay on Man by Alexander Pope - Poetry.
When I think of this time of year, Alexander Pope’s poem, An Essay on Man, comes to mind. “Hope springs eternal in the human breast,” the Englishman wrote, and for me as a golfer, it does that in spades, and especially in the spring. Which is why I found the news about the PGA Tour shutting down the Players and cancelling the next three.The Poem in Context 'Hope springs eternal in the human breast' (I.95) writes Alexander Pope in his famous poem An Essay on Man. There's a good chance you've heard this quote before, which.Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher Death; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
LibriVox recording of An Essay on Man, by Alexander Pope. Read by Martin Gleeson. Pope’s Essay on Man, a masterpiece of concise summary in itself, can fairly be summed up as an optimistic enquiry into mankind’s place in the vast Chain of Being.Alexander Pope (1824). “The Works of Alexander Popekesq., with Notes and Illustrations by Himself and Others: To which Were Added, a New Life of the Author, an Estimate of His Poetical Character and Writings, and Occasional Remarks”, p.367.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest: The soul, uneasy and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come. Lo! the poor Indian, whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul, proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk, or milky way; Yet simple.
