 O early lost ! what tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on ev'ry note expire, 275 And on his willows hung each muse's lyre.  Public Characters - Page 461806Full view - About this book
 | John Fisher Murray - London (England) - 1842 - 322 pages
...the fever that carried him off. Pope, in his "Windsor Forest," pathetically laments his death. •' O early lost! What tears the river shed When the sad...pomp along his banks was led ; His drooping swans on everv note expire, And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre. Since fate relentless stopp'd this heavenly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1846 - 328 pages
...made: Here his first lays majestic Denham sung : There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongao O. early lost ! what tears the river shed, When the...pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1847 - 488 pages
...venerable made. Here his first lays majestic DENHAM sung; There the last numbers flow'd from COWLEY'S tongue. O early lost ! what tears the river shed,...was led ! His drooping swans on ev'ry note expire, 275 And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre. Since fate relentless stopp'd their heav'nly voice, No... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Denham sung ; There the last numbers flow'dfrom Cowley's tongue. O early lost ! what tears the river shed,...pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. Since Fate, relentless, stopp'd their... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1848 - 642 pages
...POETICAL WORKS. Here his first lays majestic Denhamsung: There the last numhers flow'd from Cowley's tongue O early lost ! what tears the river shed, When the sad pomp along his hanks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre.... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Charles Macready - 1849 - 646 pages
...venerable made ; Here his first lays majestic DENHAM sung : There the last numbers flow'd from COWLEY'S e tongue. O early lost ! what tears the river shed,...pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre. Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly... | |
 | John Fisher Murray - Thames River - 1849 - 388 pages
...the fever that carried him oflf. Pope, in his " Windsor Forest," pathetically laments his death. " O early lost! What tears the river shed When the sad pomp along ris bunks was led ; His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each Muse's lyre.... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1850 - 510 pages
...venerable made : Here his first lays majestic Deriham sung : There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue. O early lost ! -what tears the river shed,...pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. Since fate relentless stopp'd their heavenly... | |
 | 586 pages
...still and solemn, with the oars dropping noiselessly in the bine water. Pope in allusion to it, says: " What tears the river shed. When the sad pomp along his banks was led;" which rather inclines ns to the belief, that in this, as in many other instances, the poetic reading... | |
 | Book - 1854 - 496 pages
...venerable made : I lure his first lays majestic Denham sung; There the last numbers flow'd from Cowley's tongue. O early lost ! what tears the river shed,...pomp along his banks was led ! His drooping swans on every note expire, And on his willows hung each muse's lyre. Since Fate, relentless, stopp'd their... | |
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