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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LINES TO A FRIEND WRITTEN AT HIS MOTHER'S BEDSIDE, by ALEXANDER POPE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While ev'ry joy, successful youth! Is thinw Last Line: Thus far, is right; the rest belongs to heav'n. | |||
While ev'ry Joy, successful Youth! is thine, Be no unpleasing Melancholy mine. Me long, ah long! may these soft Cares engage; To rock the Cradle of reposing Age, With lenient Arts prolong a Parent's Breath, Make Languor smile, and smooth the Bed of Death. Me, when the Cares my better Years have shown Another's Age, shall hasten on my own; Shall some kind Hand, like B***'s or thine, Lead gently down, and favour the Decline? In Wants, in Sickness, shall a Friend be nigh, Explore my Thought, and watch my asking Eye? Whether that Blessing be deny'd, or giv'n, Thus far, is right; the rest belongs to Heav'n. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A HYMN WRITTEN IN WINDSOR FOREST by ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON CRITICISM by ALEXANDER POPE AN ESSAY ON MAN by ALEXANDER POPE COWLEY: THE GARDEN by ALEXANDER POPE ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY by ALEXANDER POPE ELOISA TO ABELARD by ALEXANDER POPE EPIGRAM ENGRAVED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG by ALEXANDER POPE EPIGRAM ON QUEEN CAROLINE'S DEATHBED by ALEXANDER POPE EPILOGUE TO THE SATIRES: DIALOGUE 1 by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO DR. ARBUTHNOT by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO MISS TERESA BLOUNT, ON HER LEAVING THE TOWN by ALEXANDER POPE EPISTLE TO MRS. BLOUNT, WITH THE WORKS OF VOITURE by ALEXANDER POPE |
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