 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 254 lehte
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the (lumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1751 - 250 lehte
...taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the (lumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 25 5 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1752 - 338 lehte
...ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard! ,for what haft thou to dread? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature (lands check'd; Religion difapproves;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1760 - 304 lehte
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving ipirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1767 - 288 lehte
...were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature flands chcck'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | John Bell - 1796 - 524 lehte
...behind. For thee the Fates, severely kind, ordain A cool susf ence from pleasure and from pain : 250 Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose ; No pulse...gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard! for what hast thpn to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature stands check'd ; Religion disapproves;... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1783 - 322 lehte
...were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bad the waters flow; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1797 - 428 lehte
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. • Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806 - 486 lehte
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard ! for what haft thou to dread ? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806 - 480 lehte
...winds were taught to blow, Or moving fpirit bade the waters flow ; Soft as the flumbers of a faint forgiv'n, 255 And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd heav'n. Come, Abelard! for what haft thou to dread? The torch of Venus burns not for the dead. Nature ftands check'd ; Religion difapproves... | |
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Thy life a long dead calm of fix'd repose; No pulse that riots, and no blood that glows. Still as the sea, ere winds were taught to blow, Or moving spirit bade the waters flow; Soft as the slumbers of a saint forgiv'n, And mild as op'ning gleams of promis'd... 
