Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky... The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope - Page 281by Alexander Pope - 1904 - 505 pagesFull view - About this book
| Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 428 pages
...heart spoke in the lines alluding to his mother, beautiful. for their truth of feeling: " Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine! Be no unpleasing...the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath — Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
| Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...heart spoke in the lines alluding to his mother, beautiful for their truth of feeling : "Oh, friend, may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of declining age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath — Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
| William Hague - Home - 1855 - 274 pages
...paralyzed by vice or crime will unite in the wish so well expressed in Pope's celebrated strain: " Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle...age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
| David Lester Richardson - Floriculture - 1855 - 296 pages
...affections. There are probably few readers of English poetry who have not the following lines by heart. Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the...age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smooth the bed of death ; Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...offiee long engage To roek the eradle of reposing age ; With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ;...Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. Pope. PARTING. All she did, was but to wear out day. Full oftentimes... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 512 pages
...grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. Oh, friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1856 - 962 pages
...office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death ,...asking eye, And keep a while one parent from the sky ! WARREN HASTINGS ON THE BEGUM CHARGE. 433 if he had not been so thoroughly acquainted with the true... | |
| Alexander Pope - 1856 - 352 pages
...grant me thus to live, and thus to die ! Who sprung from kings shall know less joy than I. 0 friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, 1 ' Noble wife : ' alluding to the fate of Dryden and Addison. — * ' An oath : ' Pope's father was... | |
| Ernest Bernbaum - English poetry - 1918 - 422 pages
...office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile, and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky ! On cares like these if length of days attend, May Heaven, to bless... | |
| George Herbert Palmer - English poetry - 1918 - 338 pages
...office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, J With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make languor smile and smooth the bed of death, Explore the thought, explain the asking eye, And keep awhile one parent from the sky. On Sir Isaac Newton — Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night.... | |
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