 And softly lay me on the waves below! And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane! On Phoebus...  Translations and imitations - Page 15by Alexander Pope - 1751Full view - About this book
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 798 lehte
...And softly lay me on the waves below; And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! Pope. The Romans erected a most noble statue of porphyry to her memory ;... | |
 | John Dryden, Joseph Warton, John Warton - 1811 - 642 lehte
...1222. And gently lay us &c.] From thefe lines Pope has formed one of his moil melodious couplets: " Ye gentle gales, beneath my body blow, And foftly lay me on the waves below." Sappho to Phaon. JOHN WARTOX. AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE*, UY MR. DRYDEN AND THE EARL OF MULGRAVE, dull,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1811 - 582 lehte
...1222. And gently lay us &c.] From thefe lines Pope has formed one of his moft melodious couplets: " Ye gentle gales, beneath my body blow, And foftly lay me on the \Vaves below." Sappho to P/iaon. JOHN WARTOH, AN ESSAY UPON SATIRE*, at MR. DRYDEN AND THE EARL OF... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 356 lehte
...And softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! On Phoebus' shrine my harp I'll then bestow, 21 z And this inscription shall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812 - 220 lehte
...softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, J Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, \ Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane ! \ On Pbosbus' shrine my harp ['II then bestow, 212 And this inscription shall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1849 - 638 lehte
...softly lay me on the waves helow ! And thou, kind Ixrve, my sinking limhs sustain, Snro-.id thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood proiane! On Phoshus' shrine my harp l'll then hestow, And this inseription shall he... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 334 lehte
...And softly lay me on the waves below ! And thon, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane. POPE. The Romans erected a most noble statue of porphyry to her memory: and... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 428 lehte
...softly lay me on the waves below ! And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, ^ Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, > Nor let a Lover's death the guiltless flood profane! 3 On Phoebus' shrine my harp 111 then bestow, And this Inscription shall be... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1824 - 416 lehte
...softly lay me on the waves below 1 And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, ^ Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, > Nor let a Lover's death the guiltless flood profane! 3 On Phoebus' shrine my harp I'll then bestow, And this Inscription shall... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1825 - 536 lehte
...And softly lay me on the waves below! And thou, kind Love, my sinking limbs sustain, Spread thy soft wings, and waft me o'er the main, Nor let a lover's death the guiltless flood profane! On Phoebus' shrine my harp I'll then bestow, And this inscription shall be... | |
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