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Alexander Pope. (1688–1744) (continued)

3620

Tell me, my soul, can this be death?

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

3621

Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly!
O grave! where is thy victory?
O death! where is thy sting?

The Dying Christian to his Soul.

3622

What beckoning ghost along the moonlight shade
Invites my steps, and points to yonder glade? 1

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 1.

3623

Is there no bright reversion in the sky
For those who greatly think, or bravely die?

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 9.

3624

The glorious fault of angels and of gods.

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 14.

3625

So perish all, whose breast ne’er learn’d to glow
For others’ good, or melt at others’ woe. 2

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 45.

3626

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos’d,
By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos’d,
By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn’d,
By strangers honoured, and by strangers mourn’d!

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 51.

3627

And bear about the mockery of woe
To midnight dances and the public show.

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 57.

3628

How lov’d, how honour’d once avails thee not,
To whom related, or by whom begot;
A heap of dust alone remains of thee:
’T is all thou art, and all the proud shall be!

To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. Line 71.

3629

Such were the notes thy once lov’d poet sung,
Till death untimely stopp’d his tuneful tongue.

Epistle to Robert, Earl of Oxford.

3630

Who ne’er knew joy but friendship might divide,
Or gave his father grief but when he died.

Epitaph on the Hon. S. Harcourt.

3631

The saint sustain’d it, but the woman died.

Epitaph on Mrs. Corbet.

3632

Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit a man, simplicity a child. 3

Epitaph on Gay.

Note 1.
See Ben Jonson, Quotation 27. [back]

Note 2.
See Quotation 417. [back]

Note 3.
See Dryden, Quotation 36. [back]

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