Social Commentaries
To a Lady, with the 'Temple of Fame'
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Social Commentaries
What's fame with men, by custom of the nation,
Is call'd, in women, only reputation:
About them both why keep we such a pother?
Part you with one, and I'll renounce the other.
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MLA
Pope, Alexander. “To a Lady, with the 'Temple of Fame'.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/116/.
Chicago
Pope, Alexander. “To a Lady, with the 'Temple of Fame'.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/pope/116/.
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