The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Translations and imitationsJ. and P. Knapton, 1752 |
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... Gods contend in charms with thee . The Mufes teach me all their foftest lays , And the wide world refounds with Sappho's praise . Tho ' great Alcæus more fublimely fings , And strikes with bolder rage the founding ftrings , No lefs ...
... Gods contend in charms with thee . The Mufes teach me all their foftest lays , And the wide world refounds with Sappho's praise . Tho ' great Alcæus more fublimely fings , And strikes with bolder rage the founding ftrings , No lefs ...
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... Gods , a Lesbian dame ? But ah beware , Sicilian nymphs ! nor boast That wand'ring heart which I fo lately loft ; Nor be with all those tempting words abus'd , Those tempting words were all to Sappho us'd . And you that rule Sicilia's ...
... Gods , a Lesbian dame ? But ah beware , Sicilian nymphs ! nor boast That wand'ring heart which I fo lately loft ; Nor be with all those tempting words abus'd , Those tempting words were all to Sappho us'd . And you that rule Sicilia's ...
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... God that ever waits on thee , When first I heard ( from whom I hardly knew ) That you were fled , and all my joys with you , Like fome fad ftatue , fpeechlefs , pale Iftood , 125 Grief chill'd my breast , and stopp'd my freezing blood ...
... God that ever waits on thee , When first I heard ( from whom I hardly knew ) That you were fled , and all my joys with you , Like fome fad ftatue , fpeechlefs , pale Iftood , 125 Grief chill'd my breast , and stopp'd my freezing blood ...
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... God agree . " But why , alas , relentless youth , ah why To distant seas must tender Sappho fly ? Thy charms than those may far more pow'rful be , And Phœbus ' self is lefs a God to me . Ah ! can'ft thou doom me to the rocks and fea , O ...
... God agree . " But why , alas , relentless youth , ah why To distant seas must tender Sappho fly ? Thy charms than those may far more pow'rful be , And Phœbus ' self is lefs a God to me . Ah ! can'ft thou doom me to the rocks and fea , O ...
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... Gods ! can no pray'rs , no fighs , no numbers move One favage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my pray'rs , my fighs , my numbers bear , The flying winds have lost them all in air ! 245 Oh when , alas ! fhall more aufpicious ...
... Gods ! can no pray'rs , no fighs , no numbers move One favage heart , or teach it how to love ? The winds my pray'rs , my fighs , my numbers bear , The flying winds have lost them all in air ! 245 Oh when , alas ! fhall more aufpicious ...
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Página 30 - Long-sounding aisles, and intermingled graves, Black Melancholy sits, and round her throws A death-like silence., and a dread repose: Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene, Shades ev'ry flow'r, and darkens ev'ry green, Deepens the murmur of the falling floods, And breathes a browner horror on the woods.
Página 28 - And Saints with wonder heard the vows I made, Yet then, to those dread altars as I drew...
Página 30 - The darksome pines that o'er yon rocks reclin'd Wave high, and murmur to the hollow wind, The wand'ring streams that shine between the hills, The grots that echo to the tinkling rills, The dying gales that pant upon the trees, The lakes that quiver to the curling breeze ; No more these scenes my meditation aid, Or lull to rest the visionary maid.
Página 59 - The figur'd games of Greece the column grace, Neptune and Jove survey the rapid race. The youths hang o'er their chariots as they run ; The fiery steeds seem starting from the stone ; The champions in distorted postures threat ; 220 And all appear'd irregularly great. Here happy Horace tun'd th...
Página 35 - Nor share one pang of all I felt for thee. Thy oaths I quit, thy memory resign; Forget, renounce me, hate whate'er was mine.
Página 25 - Yet write, oh write me all, that I may join Griefs to thy griefs, and echo sighs to thine. Nor foes nor fortune take this power away; And is my Abelard less kind than they?
Página 33 - The phantom flies me, as unkind as you. I call aloud; it hears not what I say; I stretch my empty arms; it glides away: To dream once more I close my willing eyes; Ye soft illusions, dear deceits, arise! 240 Alas no more!— methinks we wandring go Thro...
Página 35 - When from the cenfer clouds of fragrance roll, And fwelling organs lift the rifing foul, One thought of thee puts all the pomp to flight, Priefts, tapers, temples, fwim before my fight : In feas of flame my plunging foul is drown'd, 275 While Altars blaze, and Angels tremble round.
Página 27 - em all: Not Caesar's empress would I deign to prove; No, make me mistress to the man I love; If there be yet another name more free, More fond than mistress, make me that to thee!
Página 27 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law...