 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 a while one parent from the sky...  The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Satires. On receiving from the Right ... - Σελίδα 9των Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles - 1806Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Alexander Pope - 1806
...intermixed with the molt pathetic defcription of that filial Piery, in the excrcife of which he niak;s his own happinefs to confill : " Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the Cradle of tepofing Age ; With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed of... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1806
...know lefs joy than I. O Friend ! may each domeftic blifs be thine ! Be no unpleafmg Melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of repoling Age, With lenient arts extend a Mother's breath, 410 Make Languor fmile, and fmooth the bed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807
...less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss he thine ! 406 Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the hed... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1807 - 408 σελίδες
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic hliss he thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's hreath, Make languor smile, and smoothe the hed of... | |
 | John Bell - 1807
...know less joy than I. O Friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine ; Me let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Mike Languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | British poets - 1809
...know less joy than I. O friend! may each domestic bliss be thine f Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, Make langour smile, and smoothe the bed of... | |
 | 1809
...less joy than 1. O friend ! nriy each domestic bliss be thine 5 Be no nnplensiug melancholy mine : 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... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1812
...know less joy than I. O friend ! may each domestic bliss be thine ! Be no unpleasing melancholy mine : Me, let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of reposing age, With lenient arts extend a mother's breath, 410 Make languor smile, and smooth the bed... | |
 | 1813
...most faithfully and most zealously in tending her honoured and helpless distant relatives ; saying, " Me let the tender office long engage, To rock the cradle of declining age !" POPE. .And this, too, in the prime anrt viguur of Hie, although, she herself wanted... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814
...his poetical works, he makes very affectionate mention of her, particularly in the following lines. " 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... | |
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