English poem
Verses Left By Mr. Pope
by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
With no poetic ardour fir'd I press the bed where Wilmot lay; That here he lov'd, or here expir'd, Begets no numbers grave or gay. Beneath thy roof, Argyle, are bred Such thoughts as prompt the brave to lie Stretch'd out in honour's nobler bed, Beneath a nobler roof ' the sky. Such flames as high in patriots burn, Yet stoop to bless a child or wife; And such as wicked kings may mourn, When freedom is more dear than life.
More by Alexander Pope
- Ver. 97-100:--
- Verbatim From Boileau.
- Verses
- Verses Left By Mr Pope. On His Lying In The Same Bed Which Wilmot, The Celebrated Earl Of Rochester, Slept In At Adderbury, Then Belonging To The Duke Of Argyll, July 9, 1739.
- Vertumnus and Pomona : Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 14 (v. 623-771)
- Vertumnus And Pomona, From The Fourteenth Book Of Ovid'S Metamorphoses. - Translations And Imitations.
- Weeping
- Weeping.